patience怎么读
音标：英 ['peɪʃ(ə)ns]
美['peʃns]
patience是什么意思
- n. 耐性，耐心；忍耐，容忍
助记提示
1. 发音：陪生死(即：“陪你从生到死”的简称)。
中文词源
patience 耐心，忍耐
来自拉丁语pati,忍受，承受，词源同passion,passive.即忍受力，忍耐，耐心。
英文词源
- patience (n.)
- c. 1200, "quality of being willing to bear adversities, calm endurance of misfortune, suffering, etc.," from Old French pacience "patience; sufferance, permission" (12c.) and directly from Latin patientia "patience, endurance, submission," also "indulgence, leniency; humility; submissiveness; submission to lust;" literally "quality of suffering." It is an abstract noun formed from the adjective patientem (nominative patiens) "bearing, supporting; suffering, enduring, permitting; tolerant," but also "firm, unyielding, hard," used of persons as well as of navigable rivers, present participle of pati "to suffer, endure," from PIE root *pe(i)- "to damage, injure, hurt" (see passion).
Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. [Ambrose Bierce, "Devil's Dictionary," 1911]
Meaning "constancy in effort" is attested from 1510s. Meaning "card game for one person" is from 1816.
patience的双语例句
- 1. Non-violence and patience are the central tenets of their faith.
- 非暴力和忍耐是他们的信仰的核心原则。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Her husband was sympathetic at first but his patience soon wore thin.
- 一开始她丈夫还抱以同情，可不久就失去耐心了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. It was exacting work and required all his patience.
- 工作很艰巨，需要他有极大的耐心。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. I've had enough—there are limits even for the patience of a saint!
- 我已经受够了——即使是圣人忍耐也是有限的！
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. We would like to thank them for their patience and understanding.
- 我们要感谢他们的耐心和理解。
来自柯林斯例句
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