| 刚愎自用 | gāng bì zì yòng | obstinate and self-opinionated (idiom) | |
| 刚愎 | gāng bì | headstrong; perverse | |
| 刚愎不仁 | gāng bì bù rén | stubborn and unkind (idiom) | |
| 愎谏 | bì jiàn | to be deaf to remonstrances | |
| 硬颈刚愎 | yìng jǐng gāng bì | obstinate; headstrong (idiom) |
| 1 | Not long after she had conquered a childhood bout with near blindness, her father took her to a cafe and had her sing for tips. | |
| 2 | Once you get a good night's rest, your body recovers, and the next morning, you're standing tall again! | |
| 3 | In fact, I would like to keep this job, but today my chronicle disease is back. Just when I arrived to work this morning, I had very severe pain in the stomach. | |
| 4 | The Queen yielded her power and appealed to the American people to restore Hawaii' s constitutional monarchy as the legitimate government of the people. | |
| 5 | Over a period of months, Blount conducted a thorough inquiry: his report was unequivocally critical of the takeover, and recommended that the Queen be restored to her throne. |