long-suffering

英 [ˌlɒŋ ˈsʌfərɪŋ]

美 [ˌlɔːŋ ˈsʌfərɪŋ]

adj.  长期忍受的; 忍耐的

Collins.1

牛津词典

adj.

• 长期忍受的；忍耐的
  bearing problems or another person's unpleasant behaviour with patience
  1. his long-suffering wife
     他那长期受罪的妻子

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 长期忍受的；饱受磨难的
  Someone who islong-sufferingpatiently puts up with a lot of trouble or unhappiness, especially when it is caused by someone else.
  1. He went back to Yorkshire to join his loyal, long-suffering wife.
     他回到约克郡，与对他忠贞不贰、饱受磨难的妻子团聚。

英英释义

noun

• patient endurance of pain or unhappiness
  Synonym:long-sufferance

adj

• patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble
  1. an enduring disposition
  2. a long-suffering and uncomplaining wife
  Synonym:enduring

双语例句

• My Master was long-suffering: so will I be.
  我的主长期受苦受难，我也会这样。
• If GM is successful this time, the payoff could be profits long-suffering investors never thought possible.
  如果通用汽车这次能取得成功，带来的可能是望眼欲穿的投资者从来不敢奢望的利润。
• For their drinking and shouting, we are long-suffering.
  他们狂饮喧闹，我们受罪。
• All decent people, whether they backed or opposed the war, must hope this is true for the sake of the long-suffering Iraqis.
  所有正直的人们，包括曾经支持和反对过这场战争的人们，看在长期遭受折磨的伊拉克人的份上，都会希望他们说的是真的。
• I think Tessa should plump for Malcolm, her long-suffering admirer.
  我想特莎应该选择长期默默爱慕她的马尔科姆。
• As if one were to begin the day with long-suffering, and hire a man to hoe his potatoes;
  好像一个人，每天一早就要苦修，还雇了一个人来给他种土豆；
• His noble, long-suffering wife.
  他那位高贵的长期受苦的太太。
• Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing.
  指任何经受得住痛苦而不绝望的能长期忍耐的人。
• But he owes the long-suffering, still-suffering, country more.
  但是他欠长期受苦、现在仍在受苦的美国人民更多。
• It reflects the long-suffering of the Chinese nation's suffering section of the modern history of bloody fighting.
  它反映了灾难深重的中华民族历经苦难，浴血抗争的一段现代史。