n.(名词)

1. 耐心，忍耐力，耐性
2. 坚忍，坚韧，毅力，恒心，坚持
3. 单人纸牌游戏
4. 容忍，忍耐，忍受
5. 佩欣丝，佩心丝（音译名）
6. 心思

v.(动词)

1. 有毅力，有耐性

n.(名词)

1. [U]耐性,忍耐力,耐心 ability to accept delay, annoyance or suffering without complaining
2. [U]坚忍,坚持,毅力 ability to persevere with sth

Noun:

1. good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

2. a card game played by one person

1.容忍；耐心；忍耐力
If you havepatience, you are able to stay calm and not get annoyed, for example when something takes a long time, or when someone is not doing what you want them to do.

e.g. He doesn't have thepatience to wait...
他没有耐心等待。
e.g. It was exacting work and required all hispatience.
工作很艰巨，需要他有极大的耐心。

2.单人纸牌游戏
patience is a card game for only one player.

e.g. He would often sit and playpatience.
他常常坐着玩单人纸牌游戏。

in AM, use 美国英语用 solitaire

3.考验…的耐心；使忍无可忍
If someonetries yourpatience ortests yourpatience, they annoy you so much that it is very difficult for you to stay calm.

e.g. He tended to stutter, which tried herpatience...
他老结巴，这叫她难以忍受。
e.g. I feel that she would try thepatience of a saint.
我觉得圣人都能被她逼疯。

1. patience

1. 忍辱：所以行菩提心包含一切佛教修持,例如布施(Giving)、持戒(持守道德的行为Moral conduct)、忍辱(patience)、精进(Vigour)、禅定和般若等六波罗蜜(Six Paramitas注8).

2. 耐性：跟随这些建议与提示,便可运用生活中的任何外境与内境作为禅修对象,培育觉知(awareness) 耐性(patience) 回应(reponse) 舍心(equanimity) 等等心的质素.

She has little patience with (= will not accept or consider) such views.

她很难接受这类观点。

People have lost patience with (= have become annoyed about) the slow pace of reform.

人们对改革的缓慢速度已失去耐性。

My patience is wearing thin.

我要忍耐不住了。

I have run out of patience with her.

我对她已失去耐性。

Teaching children with special needs requires patience and understanding.

教育有特殊需要的儿童需要耐心和体谅。

It takes time and patience to photograph wildlife.

拍摄野生动物要肯花时间，要有毅力。

I don't have the patience to do jigsaw puzzles.

我没有耐性做拼图游戏。

He doesn't have the patience to wait...

他没有耐心等待。

It was exacting work and required all his patience.

工作很艰巨，需要他有极大的耐心。

He would often sit and play patience.

他常常坐着玩单人纸牌游戏。

He tended to stutter, which tried her patience...

他老结巴，这叫她难以忍受。

I feel that she would try the patience of a saint.

我觉得圣人都能被她逼疯。

The old granny talked endlessly, but we listened to her with great patience.

老奶奶叨絮不休, 不过我们还是耐心地听着.

Even mother's patience was wearing thin.

甚至连母亲都渐渐变得不耐烦了.

My patience is not inexhaustible.

我的忍耐是有限的.

I haven't the patience to hear your complaints again.

我没耐性再听你的抱怨.

He possessed his soul in patience.

他耐心等待.

He is a marvel of patience.

他极有耐心.

We eventually ran out of patience with his childish behaviour.

我们终于对他幼稚的行为忍无可忍.

He has a sense of humour plus tolerance and patience.

他具有幽默感又能宽容和忍耐.

patience is the trick in doing a job well.

耐心是做工作的诀窍.

I wonder at your patience.

你的耐心使我惊异.

That sort of work wants a lot of patience.

做这样工作需要很大的耐心.

This work demands your patience.

这项工作需要你的耐心.

He showed the greatest [ the utmost ] patience .

他表现出最大的 耐心.

My patience is exhausted.

我没有耐性了.

His behavior would try the patience of Job.

无论耐性多大的人也无法忍受他的行为.

Your patience is tested by time.

时间将考验你的耐心.

1. We haven't the patience to hear such an empty talk.
   我们可没耐心去听这种空谈。
2. Have patience, my boy!
   孩子,要耐心呀!
3. The teacher had no patience with the less intelligent pupils.
   那位老师对不太聪明的学生没有耐性。
4. I wouldn't have the patience to sit mending watches all day.
   我可没有整天坐着修理钟表的耐性。

be out of patience with

对…再也不能忍受了cannot stand

patience wears thin

慢慢失去了耐心lose patience slowly

the patience of Job

极大的耐性very great patience

动词+～

• patience">cultivate patience培养耐心
• patience">display patience表现出忍耐力
• patience">keep patience忍耐
• patience">lose patience失去耐心

形容词+～

• patience">admirable patience令人钦佩的坚忍
• patience">endless patience无尽的耐心
• patience">great patience极大的耐心
• patience">uncomplaining patience毫无怨言的忍耐
• patience">unyielding patience坚忍

介词+～

• patience">beyond patience无法忍受
• patience">with patience耐心地

～+介词

• patience%20towards%20sb">patience towards sb对某人的耐心
• patience%20with%20sb">no patience with sb对某人毫无耐性

• How hath your lordship brook'd imprisonment?..With patience, noble lord, as prisoners must.

  出自：Richard III,Shakespeare

• Queues of workers formed to wait in patience for the..trams.

  出自：Blackwood's Magazine

n.(名词)

patience, forbearance, fortitude

这三个词都可指忍受不快或痛苦的能力。patience指在做诸如等候等需要耐心的事情时所表现出的平静和自制力; forbearance指遭受折磨或被激怒时所表现出来的超乎寻常的克制能力; fortitude强调在面对困难或危险、忍受折磨时所表现出来的冷静、胆识或勇气,强调性格的坚毅。

patience，endurance

这两个名词均含“忍耐、耐心”之意。

patience普通用词，通常指不急不躁的容忍态度或能力。

endurance侧重指忍受艰辛或痛苦的能力。

• ☆ 直接源自古法语的pacience，意为耐心；最初源自拉丁语的patientia，意为忍耐。