tolerable

Word family nountolerabilitytolerablenesstolerancetolerationtolerationismtolerationisttoleratoradjectivetolerabletolerantadverbtolerablytolerantlyverbtolerate

tol·e·ra·ble /ˈtɒlərəbəl $ ˈtɑː-/ adjectiveadj

1 STAND/BEARa situation that is tolerable is not very good, but you are able to accept it 〔状况〕可接受的，过得去的，尚好的 OPP intolerable → tolerate

The apartment is really too small, but it’s tolerable for the time being.

这套公寓实在太小，不过暂时还能凑合。

2 STAND/BEARunpleasant or painful and only just able to be accepted 尚可忍受的 OPP intolerable → tolerate

The heat in this room is barely tolerable.

这房间里热得让人要受不了了。

Examples from the Corpus

tolerable• An active social life may make the boredom of work more tolerable.• The taste of the medicine is bitter but tolerable.• There must have been a time when each of these practices ceased to be tolerable and reasonable behaviour.• It was a tolerable existence, but only just.• Most traffic jams are tolerable, lasting only 5 minutes or so.• The new measures can only hope to keep fraud at tolerable levels.• She will make my misery more tolerable, my slavery only half-slavery, my exile less a banishment.• The survey has produced the first national estimate of below tolerable standard houses derived from consistently applied methods.• All in all, it was better to have a tolerable tenement than the ideal which no one could afford.• If you can make a bad orchestra tolerable, that is valuable.• No manner of violence toward another human being is tolerable to me.• The tolerable was always becoming suspect, and the suspect often tolerated.

单词	tolerable
释义	tolerable Word family nountolerabilitytolerablenesstolerancetolerationtolerationismtolerationisttoleratoradjectivetolerabletolerantadverbtolerablytolerantlyverbtolerate tol·e·ra·ble /ˈtɒlərəbəl $ ˈtɑː-/ adjectiveadj 1 STAND/BEARa situation that is tolerable is not very good, but you are able to accept it 〔状况〕可接受的，过得去的，尚好的 OPP intolerable → tolerate The apartment is really too small, but it’s tolerable for the time being. 这套公寓实在太小，不过暂时还能凑合。 2 STAND/BEARunpleasant or painful and only just able to be accepted 尚可忍受的 OPP intolerable → tolerate The heat in this room is barely tolerable. 这房间里热得让人要受不了了。 Examples from the Corpus tolerable• An active social life may make the boredom of work more tolerable.• The taste of the medicine is bitter but tolerable.• There must have been a time when each of these practices ceased to be tolerable and reasonable behaviour.• It was a tolerable existence, but only just.• Most traffic jams are tolerable, lasting only 5 minutes or so.• The new measures can only hope to keep fraud at tolerable levels.• She will make my misery more tolerable, my slavery only half-slavery, my exile less a banishment.• The survey has produced the first national estimate of below tolerable standard houses derived from consistently applied methods.• All in all, it was better to have a tolerable tenement than the ideal which no one could afford.• If you can make a bad orchestra tolerable, that is valuable.• No manner of violence toward another human being is tolerable to me.• The tolerable was always becoming suspect, and the suspect often tolerated.
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