我设法坚持节食，不吃甜食。
别指望我只为多挣几块钱就坚持工作下去。
Don't expect me to stick to the job just because it pays a few more bucks.
国王坚持要这样做，说：“你坐在我旁边。”直到他坐下。
The king insisted on it, and said: "You shall sit by me," until he did it.
尽管我试图让他直接叫我的名，可他还是坚持称呼我为“肯尼迪先生”。
Despite my attempts to get him to call me by my Christian name, he insisted on addressing me as "Mr. Kennedy."
我一开始非常勤奋，但没有坚持下去。
她知道这让我有多烦，但她还是坚持这么做。
She knows how much this upsets me but she persists in doing it.
我接受过演员的训练，但没有坚持下去。
I was trained to be an actress but I didn't follow it through.
我真的不喜欢纽约，但我想再稍稍坚持一段时间。
I really didn't like New York, but I wanted to stick it out a little bit longer.
在第二个家庭中，另一个已故妇女的儿子说：“如果我没有坚持让我母亲去佛罗里达，她今天应该还活着。”
At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, "If only I hadn't insisted on my mother's going to Florida, she would be alive today."
“我没有劳动合同，”窦说，“也没有雇主方的医疗保险。如果你坚持要的话，在这里就不会有人雇你。”
"I don't have a labor contract," Dou said. "There's no employer-side health insurance. If you insist, no one will hire you here."
我的一些同事坚持认为它肯定是公元前100年后才发明出来的。
Some of my colleagues insisted it had to have been made well after 100 B.C.E.
“我可来了，只要你答应不和你说的那样做。”男孩坚持说。
"I shall only come if you promise not to do what you said," insisted the boy.
我的确参与出了的一个主意是我们坚持走传统蛋糕路线。
One of the ideas I did have in there was to stick to a traditional cupcake.
这是我一直坚持的一个爱好，一直帮助我应对工作压力，在忙乱的日子里给我秩序感，让我的大脑得到解决问题的时间。
It's a hobby that I've stuck with, and it continues to help me cope with stress at work, provide a sense of order in hectic days, and allow my brain time to solve problems.
二十世纪60年代，当我还是耶鲁大学心理学系的一名研究生时，我首次开始研究人类动机的基础以及人们在遭遇挫折后如何坚持下去。
I first began to investigate the basis of human motivation—and how people persevere after setbacks—as a psychology graduate student at Yale University in the 1960s.
我告诉她，咳嗽了一整夜后，她不应该游泳，但她拒绝放弃，坚持要去。
I told her she shouldn't swim after a whole night's coughing, but she refused to give up and insisted she go.
我坚持写作到今天的原因是我对汉语的热情。
The reason why I stick to writing till today is my passion for the Chinese language.
当我开始描述树林里面是多么安静时，我不断提及要花多少努力才能坚持下去。
As I start describing how quiet it is to be out in the woods, I keep mentioning how much effort it takes to keep going.
我记得你送给我的鲜花，以及花刺如何刺痛你的手指，但你却勇敢地坚持着。
I remember your present of flowers and how the thorns had hurt your fingers but you carried on bravely.
我相信如果他们坚持自己的梦想，坚持尝试，他们迟早会得到机会并成功。
I believe they will get chances and succeed sooner or later if they hold on to their dreams and keep on trying.
尽管我们都长大了，我的母亲仍然坚持为我和我所有的兄弟姐妹做饭和洗衣服。
Even though we're all grown up, my mother still insists on cooking and doing laundry for me and all my siblings.
我知道，不论我在人生中需要面对什么，我都要坚持，我都能挺过来。
I know whatever I have to face in my life I was there and I survived.
如果我想继续坚持自己的创业梦想，我没有其他选择。
If I want to continue ahead with this dream of owning my own business, I have no other choice.
很多次我想过放弃，但我坚持了下来。
对我来说，行动是成功最重要的因素，要坚持不懈地采取行动。
For me, act is the most important thing for success and that's to Take Persistent Action(Act).
曾有一些完全陌生的人把文章或演讲稿扔到我面前，坚持让我帮他们做英文翻译。
I have had complete strangers throwing articles or speeches in my face, insisting that I help them with the English translation.
一开始他坚持他的说法准确，可他还是同意了我的论点。
At first he insisted on the accuracy of his account, however, he agreed with what I said.
他坚持要我付账。
如果他还坚持，说这个我知道，但是它到底是什么意义呢？
If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean?
一开始我说“不”，但是对方坚持，保证按我的日程安排，还奉承我，对我说，“我们需要你！”
I say no at first, but they persist. They promise to work around my schedule; they flatter me.
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