be dead set on

基本解释

The critical factor seems to be that Microsoft is dead-set on maintaining pixel-perfect compatibility with at least 10 years of legacy Microsoft Office binary formats.
更关键的因素似乎在于 10 多年来 Microsoft 一直在坚定不移地保持着与遗留 Microsoft Office 二进制格式的完美兼容性。
Then that got me excited, so I decided I wanted to be an anthropologist-archaeologist and was dead set on it and reading everything I could get through the state library system on that subject.
这让我很兴奋，所以我决定了，我想成为一名人类学家兼考古学家，并铁定了心地要进行研究，并阅读一切我能通过国家书库系统得到的关于这个话题的东西。

For users dead set on expanding that capacity, an optional keyboard dock will be made available that not only augments the S2110's storage via full SD slot, but also extends battery life by an extra 10 hours.
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To be sure, eldest daughter Mary, who has now wed that distantly related heir, seems dead set on raising her brood in Downton.
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