🇬🇧🇨🇳 committed - 坚定的 : English Lesson

Meaning of "committed" ("坚定的"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

If you are committed, it means you care about something so much that you stick with it, even when it’s hard or takes a long time. A committed person keeps trying, keeps practicing, and doesn’t give up easily because what they are doing is important to them. Being committed often means you make promises to yourself or others—and you actually keep them.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I’m committed to being early, which is why I arrived to my own surprise party before the decorations did.

I’m committed to keeping my room clean, which is why I shove everything into one mystery closet and guard it like a dragon.

Our cat is committed to doing absolutely nothing and works very hard at napping on every chair in the house.

Grandpa is committed to telling jokes so long that by the time he’s done, we forget what the question was.

The committed spider rebuilt its web three times after I walked through it, probably writing a tiny angry review about me.

At midnight a single street lamp lit the small boat. He was committed to the boat, committed to bailing water with a tin cup, committed despite cold hands, committed while rain fell harder. Hours later the rain eased, the boat floated, and he, tired and wet, smiled — relieved that his committed care had saved it.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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