acceptable
/əkˈseptəbl/adjective
1
- able to be agreed on; suitable可接受的; 合适的：
the electoral arrangements must be acceptable to the people.
选举安排必须是为人民所接受的。
1.1
- adequate; satisfactory过得去的; 令人满意的：
an acceptable substitute for champagne.
差强人意的香槟酒替代品。
1.2
- pleasing; welcome合意的; 受欢迎的：
some coffee would be most acceptable.
来点儿咖啡就太好了。
1.3
- Linguistics (of a sentence, phrase, or other linguistic unit) judged by a native speaker to conform to the rules of Grammar of a particular language【语言学】（句子、短语或其他语言单位）合乎语法规则的。
2
- able to be tolerated or allowed可容忍的; 可允许的：
pollution in the city had reached four times the acceptable level.
城市污染曾四倍于可允许的标准。
短语
the acceptable face of
- the tolerable or attractive manifestation or aspect of (something typically considered suspect or immoral)（尤指某可疑或不道德事物的）可容忍（或引人）的一面。
派生词
acceptability
nounacceptableness
nounacceptably
adverb词源
late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin acceptabilis, from acceptare （see ACCEPT）.