0 to say firmly or demand forcefully, especially when others disagree with or oppose what you say -- 坚持说，强调；坚决要求
[ + (that) ] Greg still insists (that) he did nothing wrong. 格雷格仍坚称自己没有做错任何事。
Please go first - I insist! 请先走——我坚持这样！
She's 85 now, but she will insist on doing all her own housework.
The men at City Hall insist that big spending cuts are just not practical.
The police insist that they are not relaxing their campaign against drugs.
They insisted that all swear words be deleted from the article.
She insisted on telling me every single detail of what they did to her in hospital.
On day 3, he insisted on going to a hot spring instead of receiving cancer treatment.
Yet, from the standpoint that insists that 'values', 'opinions' and 'tastes' influence decisions identically, such differences are invisible.
It does not shun predictions, but insists that predictions be based on models that capture underlying processes.
