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

• 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。
• 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。
• He thanked his employees for the forbearance they had shown during the company's difficult times.
  他感谢员工们在公司困难时期所表现出来的宽容。
• Even this forbearance has led to a great deal of trouble, as Boush can attest.
  然而，即使是对魔法如此严令禁止，也给他们带来了很多麻烦，这一点鲍什深有体会。
• 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。
• But the forbearance shown by a valiant and brave person is true forgiveness.
  但是及其勇敢者所表现出的忍耐是真正的宽恕。
• It pursued a policy of deliberate forbearance.
  该机构奉行的是一种刻意宽容的政策。
• We've always taken an attitude of forbearance.
  我们一向采取克制态度。
• I learned forbearance, nobility of the character, and a steady temper.
  从我的外婆，我学到了忍辱负重，高尚的人格，平和的脾气。
• The policy was forbearance, to avoid armed intervention.
  此项政策讲求克制，避免武装干预。