- Patience is a person's ability to wait something out or endure something tedious, without getting riled up. It takes a lot of patience to wait for your braces to come off, to deal with a toddler's temper tantrum, or to build a house out of toothpicks.
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- n. 耐性，耐心；忍耐，容忍
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1. The work demands patience.
这工作需要耐心。
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2. patience is a requirement in teaching.
耐心是教学必备的条件。
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3. I don't have the patience todo jigsaw puzzles.
我没有耐性玩拼图游戏。
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4. She has little patience with such views.
她很难接受这类观点。
- 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 endure, undergo, experience," which is of uncertain origin.
pa·tience ★ / ˈpeɪʃns ; NAmE ˈpeɪʃns / noun [uncountable ] 1 ★ patience(with sb/sth) the ability to stay calm and accept a delay or sth annoying without complaining 耐心；忍耐力 ◆ She has little patience with (= will not accept or consider)such views. 她很难接受这类观点。 ◆ People have lost patience with (= have become annoyed about)the slow pace of reform. 人们对改革的缓慢速度已经失去耐性。 ◆ I have run out of patience with her. 我对她已失去耐性了。 ◆ My patience is wearing thin. 我要忍耐不住了。 ◆ Teaching children with special needs requires patience and understanding. 教导有特殊需要的儿童需要耐心和体谅。 2 ★ the ability to spend a lot of time doing sth difficult that needs a lot of attention and effort 毅力；坚忍；恒心 ◆ It takes time and patience to photograph wildlife. 拍摄野生动物要肯花时间，还要有毅力。 ◆ I don't have the patience todo jigsaw puzzles. 我没有耐性玩拼图游戏。 3 ( BrE) ( NAmE soli·taire ) a card game for only one player 单人纸牌游戏 IDIOMsee Job , try v. pa·tience / ˈpeɪʃns ; NAmE ˈpeɪʃns /
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