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

• Avenging Wrath no longer causes Forbearance, damage increase reduced to20%, now increases healing done by20%.
  复仇之怒（小翅膀）不再触发自律，提高的的伤害降低到20%，但现在额外增加了20%的治疗加成。
• 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。
• Let us exercise forbearance and firmness.
  让我们运用我们的克制态度和坚定信念。
• 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。
• Our forbearance should never be misunderstood.
  对我们的忍让绝不应误解。
• The policy was forbearance, to avoid armed intervention.
  此项政策讲求克制，避免武装干预。
• There is however, a limit a which forbearance cease to be a virtue.
  无论如何，克制有个极限，超过了极限就不再是美德。
• Us forbearance will not last forever.
  美国的忍耐不会永远持续下去。
• Patience is synonymous with forbearance and longsuffering.
  忍耐也就是自制和能吃苦的意思。
• 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。