Sufferance
['sʌf(ə)r(ə)ns] or ['sʌfərəns]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance.
(n.) Pain endured; misery; suffering; distress.
(n.) Loss; damage; injury.
(n.) Submission under difficult or oppressive circumstances; patience; moderation.
(n.) Negative consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration; permission; allowance; leave.
(n.) A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods.
黛布拉整理
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Suffering.[2]. Patience, moderation, long-suffering.[3]. Permission, allowance, toleration.
錄入:万斯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Toleration, permission, allowance, endurance, moderation, self-control,long_suffering, patience
ANT:Prohibition, resistance, nonendurance, impatience, insubmission
安托万整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Well, perhaps, on sufferance, I might. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Might not her mother take advantage of Adrian's absence to urge her beyond her sufferance, perhaps to entrap her? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- But she holds it on sufferance and by a complimentary construction of language which does not refer to her. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The therns know that they live at all only by the sufferance of the black men. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
校對:伦道夫