1 insistent (on sth/doing sth);insistent that... saying strongly that you must have or do sth, or that sb else must do sth 坚持: Doctors are insistent on the need to do more exercise. 医生坚决认为要多运动。She was most insistent that we should all be there. 她十分坚持要我们所有人都到那里。

2 continuing for a long time in a way that cannot be ignored 持续（因而不能不理会）: the insistent ringing of the telephone 响个不停的电话 ➔insistently adv