1、arrangement

安排；準備；籌劃

The staff is working frantically on final arrangements for the summit.

工作人員正緊張忙亂地為峰會做最后準備。

She telephoned Ellen, but made no arrangements to see her.

她給埃倫打了電話，但沒有約她見面。

商定；約定；協議

The caves can be visited only by prior arrangement.

這些洞穴只接受預約參觀。

Her class teacher made a special arrangement to discuss her progress at school once a month.

她班上的老師作了特別安排，每月討論一次她在學業上的進展情況。

排列；布置；整理

The house was always decorated with imaginative flower arrangements.

這所房子總是擺放著富有創意的插花。

an arrangement of dark-blue armchairs around a coffee table.

咖啡桌周圍擺放了一些深藍色扶手椅

2、insist

堅持;堅決認為(或主張、要求)

My family insisted that I should not give in, but stay and fight.

家里人堅持認為我不應讓步,而應該留下來繼續抗爭。

She insisted on being present at all the interviews.

她堅持所有采訪自己都要在場。

堅稱;堅持說

The president insisted that he was acting out of compassion, not opportunism.

總統堅持說他如此做是出于同情而不是為了投機。

It's not that difficult, she insists.

“并沒有那么困難,”她堅持說。