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The Sporting Scene The Tenacity of Rafael Nadal At the Australian Open, two great champions, Nadal and Ashleigh Barty, showed what tennis can be. By Gerald Marzorati

Mr. Joel played to two kinds of local pride. “This is where New York meets Long Island,” he said with a smile. “Queens — politically, that’s New York City. But geographically, we are on Long Island.” In a three-hour concert dotted with guest stars, Mr. Joel hinted that a long pop career — like his — can parallel the life of a city, full of pleasures and disappointments, triumphs and mistakes, changes and tenacity.

coin of the realm, tenacity

tenacity 名][U]固持, 固執；粘り［忍耐］強さ；頑固さ；記憶力のよさ；粘り. n.

A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics. The following illustrative lines were written of a Californian gentleman in high political preferment, who has passed to his accounting:

    Of such tenacity his grip
   That nothing from his hand can slip.
   Well-buttered eels you may o'erwhelm
   In tubs of liquid slippery-elm
   In vain -- from his detaining pinch
   They cannot struggle half an inch!
   'Tis lucky that he so is planned
   That breath he draws not with his hand,
   For if he did, so great his greed
   He'd draw his last with eager speed.
   Nay, that were well, you say.  Not so
   He'd draw but never let it go!

realm ▼発音注意）[名]

1 領域, 範囲；（学問などの）分野, 部門；（動植物分布の）圏, 帯

the realm of science 科 学の領域

within the realm of possibility 可能性の範囲内に

prices within realm of common sense 常識的におかしくない値段.

2 ((文))王国.

［古フランス語←ラテン語＊rēgālimen （rēgālis王室の＋-men王国）. △REGAL¹, REIGN］

 

tenacity

(tə-năs'ĭ-tē) n.

The state or quality of being tenacious: “Social styles developed in the 19th century withstand, with sporelike tenacity, all that the present century can throw at them” (Larry McMurty).

Thesaurus: tenacity

noun

The quality or state of being stubbornly unyielding: bullheadedness, doggedness, hardheadedness, mulishness, obstinacy, obstinateness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, pigheadedness, tenaciousness, willfulness. Seeresist/yield.