编辑写道：

The word is “almost always a positive word that expresses our admiration for people who keep going in difficult situations."

这个词“几乎总是正面的，用来对不怕困难坚持不懈的人表达敬佩之情”。

他们还表示：

people had shown the meaning of the word “in the face of challenges and disruption to our lives from Covid-19 and other problems”.

人们“面对疫情和其他问题给生活带来的挑战和挫折”展示出了“毅力”一词的内涵。

《剑桥词典》的出版经理温达琳·尼克尔斯（Wendalyn Nichols）认为：

it “made sense” that searches for the word spiked after the descent of the Mars Rover.

在火星探测器着陆后该词的搜索量暴增是“合理的”。

她说：

Cambridge Dictionary is the top website in the world for learners of English, and perseverance is not a common word for students of English to have in their vocabulary.

剑桥词典官网是世界一流的英语学习网站，很多英语学习者都不知道perseverance这个单词是什么意思。 

We often see spikes in look-ups of words associated with current events when those words are less familiar.

当时事新闻中出现不常见的单词时，通常会出现搜索量激增。

She said editors felt it was an appropriate word for the year, given the challenges of 2021.

她表示，编辑们认为考虑到2021年的种种挑战，“毅力”很适合做年度词汇。