ob-,相对，对着的，-dur,硬的，词源同endure,during.引申词义固执的。

1. Parts of the administration may be changing but others have been obdurate defenders of the status quo.

政府的一些部门可能正在作出改变，但是其他部门却执意维护现状。

2. A third group were obdurate and still wanted to wait and see.

第三部分人则是顽固地还要等着看.

3. The child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart.

这个孩子的悲惨遭遇即使最冷酷的心肠也会为之动情.

4. Even obdurate India has begun to look less of an outlier.

就连顽固的印度也开始表现得不那么像一个局外人.

5. Entrenched prejudices, obdurate opinions are as sterile as no opinionsall.

固有的偏见 、 执拗的观点与没有观点一样贫瘠可怜.