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

• There is too much torment, renunciation, and anxiety in this love for it to be anything but infinite forbearance.
  这爱中有太多的折磨、太多的自制、与太多的焦虑，除了无穷无尽的忍耐，这些就成了它的一切。
• It pursued a policy of deliberate forbearance.
  该机构奉行的是一种刻意宽容的政策。
• 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。
• The parents showed remarkaBle forBearance toward their defiant and unruly son.
  父母对儿子的桀骜不驯示以了极大宽容。
• 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。
• Us forbearance will not last forever.
  美国的忍耐不会永远持续下去。
• 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。
• Elinor wished that the same forbearance could have extended towards herself.
  埃利诺希望他们对她自己也能持以同样的克制态度。
• The second principle is forbearance.
  第二个原则是克制力。