patience, endurance

名詞 patience:

1. good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
   同義詞：forbearance, longanimity
2. a card game played by one person
   同義詞：solitaire

1. Her endless patience made her the best nurse in the hospital.
   無限的耐心使她成為這個醫(yī)院最好的護(hù)士。
2. Learning to walk again after his accident required great patience.
   他出事后重新學(xué)習(xí)走路要有極大的毅力。
3. I must tell you that his patience has its limit.
   我必須告訴你，他的耐心是有限的。
4. His rudeness was beyond my patience.
   他的粗暴使我無法忍受。

pa.tience

n.（名詞）
The capacity, quality, or fact of being patient.
耐心：忍耐的能力、品質(zhì)或事實
Chiefly British The game solitaire.
【多用于英國】 單人紙牌戲

<參考詞匯><同義詞>patience,long-suffering,resignation,forbearanceThese nouns all denote the capacity to endure hardship, difficulty, or inconvenience without complaint.
這些名詞都含有毫無怨言地忍受苦難、困難或不便的能力。
Patience emphasizes calmness, self-control, and the willingness or ability to tolerate delay:
Patience 強(qiáng)調(diào)寬容延遲的鎮(zhèn)靜、自制和意愿或能力：
例句：
.Our patience will achieve more than our force. (Edmund Burke).
.我們的耐力會遠(yuǎn)勝于我們的力量所能達(dá)到的. （埃德蒙德·伯克）。

例句：
.No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out. (Joseph Conrad).
.沒有恐懼能比饑餓更可怕，任何耐力也難以克服饑餓. （約瑟夫·康拉德）。

Long-suffering is long and patient endurance, as of wrong or provocation:
Long-suffering 指長久而有耐力地忍受如冤屈或挑釁等：
例句：
The general, a man by no means notable for docility and long-suffering, flew into a rage.
這位將軍，一個從不會順從或忍耐的人，變得暴跳如雷。

Resignation implies an unresisting acceptance of or submission to something trying,as out of despair or necessity:
Resignation 指不反抗的接受或屈服于某一痛苦的事，如因為絕望或需要：
例句：
Too timorous to protest the disrespect with which she was being treated, the young woman could only accept it with resignation.
這個年輕的女人太懦弱了以致無力抗?fàn)幩馐艿牟痪?，她只能接受這一事實。

Forbearance denotes restraint, as in retaliating, demanding what is due, or voicing disapproval or condemnation:
Forbearance 指抑制、忍耐，如在復(fù)仇、爭取正確事物或表示反對或譴責(zé)中：
例句：
.It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. (Patrick Henry).
.彼此施行基督徒的忍耐、愛和慈善是所有人相互的責(zé)任. （帕特里克·亨利）。

例句：
The parents showed remarkable forbearance toward their defiant and unruly son.
父母對兒子的桀驁不馴示以了極大寬容。