Forbearance
[fɔː'beər(ə)ns] or [fɔr'bɛrəns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting; 'his forbearance to reply was alarming'.
錄入:特丽萨--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience.
(n.) The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering.
阿蒂整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Forbearing, shunning, abstinence, avoidance.[2]. Patience, lenity, indulgence, long suffering.
手打:内蒂
娱乐性解釋/意思：
The spirit of toleration shown when a man who knows, patiently listens to a fool who does not.
錄入:米歇尔
例句/造句/用法:
- You must remember that your uncle's state requires--hum--great forbearance from us, great forbearance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Attendance, forbearance, patience with Darcy, was injury to Wickham. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- I thought it my duty to protest against Lady Glyde's unfavourable opinion of his lordship, and I did so, with becoming forbearance and respect. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- You have always treated me with the same delicacy and the same forbearance. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Was there one of the family, excepting Edmund, who had not in some way or other continually exercised her patience and forbearance? 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- He pressed for the strictest forbearance and silence towards their niece; she not only promised, but did observe it. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- We call it Horse,' said Mr Podsnap, with forbearance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Not one of your stiff-laced, moralising fathers, who preach chastity and forbearance to their children. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- We are Sir Percival's friends, and if generosity and forbearance can add to our regard for him, we ought to be Sir Percival's admirers as well. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- But there my forbearance stopped. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- If not, and you appeal to my forbearance, and the mercy of those you have deeply injured, seat yourself, without a word, in that chair. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- It had a high claim to forbearance. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Towards Mr. Pocket, as a grown-up infant with no notion of his own interests, they showed the complacent forbearance I had heard them express. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Miss Crawford's kind opinion of herself deserved at least a grateful forbearance, and she began to talk of something else. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- This appeared likely; for I was too shy, and too proud to ask for money: and Frederick Lamb encouraged me in this amiable forbearance! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
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