我坚持要他们提前赶到那。
注:1)insist on 后面不能接由“名词或代词 动词不定式”构成的复合宾语。不能说:the teacher insisted on all the compositions to be handed in on monday.
2)insist 宾语从句(从句中的谓语动词常用虚拟语气,即should 动词原形或
省去should)。例如: the young men insisted that they (should) be sent to the front.
那些年轻人坚持要求被派往前线去。
【用法二】v. 坚持认为,坚持说,强调
1) insist on 名词。
例如: he insisted on his innocence.
他坚持说自己无罪。
2)insist on 宾语从句在表示一个客观事实时(谓语动词不用虚拟语气,而应用陈述语气)。
例如: the boy insisted that he hadn’t broken the glass.
那小男孩坚持说他没有打烂玻璃杯。
2.It’s not clear if the six Kenyans will show up at the court in The Hague– a lot is at stake.
show up揭露,露出,露面
例句:He showed up when we least expected him.
我们根本没有料到, 他竟然来了。
He promised to come on Tuesday but he never showed up.
他答应星期二来, 可是一直未露面。
at stake视情况而定,胜负未定
例句:My whole future was at stake.