forbearance

英 [fɔːˈbeərəns]

美 [fɔːrˈberəns]

n.  宽容

GRE法律

BNC.22490 / COCA.22860

牛津词典

noun

• 宽容
  the quality of being patient and sympathetic towards other people, especially when they have done sth wrong

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 忍耐;克制
  If you say that someone has shownforbearance, you admire them for behaving in a calm and sensible way about something that they have a right to be very upset or angry about.
  1. All the Greenpeace people behaved with impressive forbearance and dignity.
     所有绿色和平组织人士表现出了超乎寻常的克制和大度。

英英释义

noun

• a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges
  1. his forbearance to reply was alarming
• good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
  Synonym:patiencelonganimity

双语例句

• This forbearance on the part of youth would be much more appreciated if it were extended likewise to sermons.
  如果青年人的这种克制能同样扩大到讲道方面去，那么它将会受到大得多的赞赏。
• Our Confederacy, fellow citizens, can only be preserved by the same forbearance.
  同胞们，只能以相同的忍耐来保护我们的联盟。
• He cast aside his Christian forbearance and forgiveness.
  他把他那种基督教徒的宽容和宽恕抛到了一边。
• The ability to face and overcome opposition brings the inner qualities of strength and forbearance.
  能力面对和克服反对带来力量和忍耐的内在质量。
• The second principle is forbearance.
  第二个原则是克制力。
• There is too much torment, renunciation, and anxiety in this love for it to be anything but infinite forbearance.
  这爱中有太多的折磨、太多的自制、与太多的焦虑，除了无穷无尽的忍耐，这些就成了它的一切。
• Introversion, conservatism, tolerance, and forbearance are the basic traditional national nature of Chinese people.
  中华民族传统的民族性格是内向、封闭、保守、宽容和忍让。
• There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
  克服也有个限度，超过了限度就不再是美德。
• All the Greenpeace people behaved with impressive forbearance and dignity.
  所有绿色和平组织人士表现出了超乎寻常的克制和大度。
• I wrote to him an ingenuous letter of acknowledgment, craving his forbearance a little longer.
  我给他写了一封十分坦率的感谢信，希望他能再度宽容一段时间。