tolerate
英 ['tɒləreɪt]
美 ['tɑləret]
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tolerate 容忍，允许，宽容来自拉丁语 tolerare,忍受，容忍，来自 PIE*tele,忍受，支撑，举起，词源同 talent,extol.
- tolerate
- tolerate: [16] To tolerate something is etymologically to ‘bear’ it. The word comes from the past participle of Latin tolerāre ‘bear, tolerate’. This in turn was formed from a base *tol- ‘lift, carry’, which also underlies English extol [15].
=> extol - tolerate (v.)
- 1530s, of authorities, "to allow without interference," from Latin toleratus, past participle of tolerare (see toleration). Related: Tolerated; tolerating.
- 1. She can no longer tolerate the position that she's in.
- 她再也受不了自己的处境了.
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- 2. The Party does not tolerate dissenters in its ranks.
- 该政党不允许其成员中存在异见分子。
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- 3. He does not tolerate anyone who mucks him about.
- 他对耍弄他的人毫不客气。
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- 4. I can just about tolerate it at the moment.
- 当时我差一点就忍受不了了。
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- 5. Lying is something that I will not tolerate.
- 我绝对不能容忍撒谎这样的行为。
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