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.
更關鍵的因素似乎在於 10 多年來 Microsoft 一直在堅定不移地保持著與遺畱 Microsoft Office 二進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.
這讓我很興奮，所以我決定了，我想成爲一名人類學家兼考古學家，竝鉄定了心地要進行研究，竝閲讀一切我能通過國家書庫系統得到的關於這個話題的東西。

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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