英语词汇“endure”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINendure

Origin:

1300-1400 French endurer, from Latin durare ‘to harden’

VERB TABLE

endure

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	endure
	he, she, it	endures
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	endured
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have endured
	he, she, it	has endured
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had endured
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will endure
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have endured

Continuous Form
Present	I	am enduring
	he, she, it	is enduring
	you, we, they	are enduring
Past	I, he, she, it	was enduring
	you, we, they	were enduring
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been enduring
	he, she, it	has been enduring
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been enduring
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be enduring
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been enduring

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Many cancer patients have to endure a great deal of pain.
Scott's popularity endured well beyond his death in 1832.
She endured a barrage of open abuse and racism during her time at college.
She has endured ten years of painful back operations.
The people in this country have endured almost a decade of economic hardship.
They were lost in the mountains for ten days, enduring hunger, thirst, and intense cold.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

A pied-piper's trail of opportunity discarded, needless abasement endured, and a grievous ransom paid in blood and treasure.
Finally a day came when they could endure no longer.
It was slavery in all but name, and names meant little to those who had to endure it.
Neither pope nor president can long endure without such cleansing.
None of these authors focuses on why marriage, having endured so long, is now in such a mess.
Working-class women who endured hardship and self-sacrifice and survived with something of themselves still intact.

THESAURUS► tolerate

verb [transitive] to accept unpleasant behaviour or an unpleasant situation, even though you do not like it: · We will not tolerate any kind of racism.· People tolerated corruption for years.

► put up with something

to accept unpleasant behaviour or an unpleasant situation even though you do not like it. Put up with is less formal than tolerate, and is the usual word to use in everyday English: · I don’t see how you can put up with the constant noise.· Many people put up with poor pay and working conditions because they are afraid of losing their jobs.

► accept

verb [transitive] to agree or deal with a situation you do not like but cannot change: · She found it hard to accept his death.

► stand/bear

verb [transitive, not in progressive] to accept or be forced to accept an unpleasant situation – used especially about things which cause you pain or make you feel upset. Bear is more formal than stand: · I don’t know how you’ve stood it for so long.· Maisie couldn’t bear the pain any longer.· How do you stand living in such a mess?

► take

verb [transitive] informal to accept an unpleasant situation or someone’s unpleasant behaviour without becoming upset: · She was shouting at him and he just stood there and took it.· I can’t take much more of this.

► live with something

to accept a bad situation as a permanent part of your life that you cannot change: · I’ve had back pain for many years and I’ve just learned to live with it.· The guilt I felt was very hard to live with.

► endure

verb [transitive] written to accept an unpleasant or difficult situation for a long time: · The victims of this war have endured tremendous pain and suffering.· The refugees endured cramped and filthy conditions.

Longman Language Activatorto accept an unpleasant situation► put up with

to accept an annoying situation or someone's annoying behaviour, without trying to stop it or change it: · I don't know how you put up with all this noise day after day.· You see what I have to put up with - the kids never stop arguing.· Well, you put up with the danger and bad conditions, because you need to feed your family.

► can stand

to accept or be forced to accept an unpleasant situation: · Don't bring me your problems, I've already got as much trouble as I can stand.· There are cats in every room. I don't know how she can stand it.can stand doing something: · I don't think I'll be able to stand sharing an office with Dana.stand another hour/minute/moment etc: · Can you stand another minute of this awful music? Shall I turn it off?

► bear

to accept pain or an unpleasant situation that makes you angry, sad, or upset: · My leg really hurts -- I'm not sure how much longer I can bear it.· Talking to a counsellor can help divorcees to bear the pain of separation.· The trial was a great scandal but she bore it all with courage and dignity.be hard to bear: · Her loneliness was hard to bear, after her husband died.

► tolerate

to accept an annoying situation or someone's annoying behaviour, without trying to stop it or change it. Tolerate is more formal than put up with: · She seems to be able to tolerate any kind of behaviour from the students.· For years, the workers have had to tolerate low wages and terrible working conditions.· If you can tolerate the side-effects, HRT can help the symptoms enormously.

► endure

written to accept or be forced to accept a very unpleasant or difficult situation for a long time: · She endured a barrage of open abuse and racism during her time at college.· The people in this country have endured almost a decade of economic hardship.

► take/handle

informal to accept an unpleasant situation or someone's unpleasant behaviour without becoming upset: · I've tried to be understanding, but quite honestly, this is more than I can take.· Tell me what happened -- I can handle it.· Are you going to argue with me, or are you just going to stand there and take it?

► live with

to accept an unpleasant situation as a permanent part of your life that you cannot change: · You have to learn to live with stress.· I found the burden of guilt very difficult to live with.· None of us really like the new system, but we've got to learn to live with it.live with yourself (=accept something bad or wrong that you have done): · You should be careful before you do anything rash. Remember, you'll have to live with yourself afterwards.

► be hard to stomach

to be difficult for you to accept: · Every year the Christmas shopping season seems to start earlier, a fact which many people find hard to stomach.· I found this lecture from Chris of all people hard to stomach.

► grin and bear it

spoken to accept an unpleasant or difficult situation as happily as you can, because you cannot change it: · Well, I said to myself, I'll just have to grin and bear it.· The message was clear - no matter how insulting passengers became, we couldn't do anything but grin and bear it.

to suffer► suffer

to experience physical or emotional pain when something bad happens to you: · Children always suffer when their parents get divorced.· In all wars, it's innocent civilians who suffer most.· Anne still suffers a lot of pain in her leg.suffer from: · Two hundred million people worldwide suffer from parasitic diseases.

► endure

especially written to experience pain or have difficult or unpleasant experiences over a long period - use this especially about people who are brave and patient: · She has endured ten years of painful back operations.· They were lost in the mountains for ten days, enduring hunger, thirst, and intense cold.

► go through

to experience a lot of problems in your life over a long period of time: · Peter had lost his job, and the family was going through a very difficult time.· It's good to see Patrick looking so happy now, after all he's gone through in the last few years.

► undergo

to experience a very difficult or unpleasant situation that you have no control over and cannot stop: · The hostages were eventually released after undergoing a terrifying ordeal.· He underwent major heart surgery last year.· At that time she was undergoing tremendous emotional problems following the breakup of her marriage.

► be subjected to

to be forced to experience something very unpleasant, such as unfair or violent treatment, especially over a long time: · Black people in the area are claiming they have been subjected to repeated racial attacks from police officers.· The charity helps children who have been subjected to domestic violence and sexual abuse.

► be in the grip of

to be experiencing an extremely unpleasant or serious situation that you have no control over and cannot stop: · The Sudan was in the grip of its worst famine for 20 years.· Much of Europe was in the grip of postwar recession.

► be in the throes of

to be experiencing a difficult or unpleasant situation, especially one that continues a long time: · Kramer was in the throes of clinical depression and left the band for a while.· In the throes of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt developed the economic plan called 'The New Deal'.

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► an abiding/enduring/lasting memory

(=that you will always have)· The children's abiding memory of their father is of his patience and gentleness.

► an enduring myth

(=that has continued for a long time)· The idea that Kennedy was shot by the CIA is one of the enduring myths of our time.

► endure an ordeal

· In his book, he describes how he endured the ordeal of prison life.

► continuing/enduring popularity

· Today, the novel enjoys enduring popularity and ranks among the USA's top-selling books.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► long

· Here, you might think, is a piece of the past that will not long endure.· Neither pope nor president can long endure without such cleansing.· Raised in London, he suffered polio in childhood and endured long spells in hospital.· They made each other miserable, locking wills, disbelieving that the other party could long endure a war of emotional attrition.· Few among mortals could have long endured that unchanging brilliancy of light, but few had ever found their way thither.

► most

· Thus the Premiership's most enduring fairytale has reached a dark denouement worthy of the brothers Grimm.· But the most enduring treasure is the city itself.· But it has proven among the most enduring.· The movie San Francisco has given this resiliency its most enduring, sentimental, and apolitical treatment.

NOUN► death

· The others were beheaded first; her executioner botched her beheading and left her to endure a three-day death.· He went to the Games in 1992 as he endured the death of his father.

► hardship

· We have endured hardship in order to provide continuous feedback.· Born in about 570, Muhammad endured many hardships in the first forty years of his life.· Working-class women who endured hardship and self-sacrifice and survived with something of themselves still intact.· Wilson speeches often praise the gumption of illegal immigrants who take risks and endure hardships to better themselves and their families.· Nineteenth-century irrigation pioneers were better suited to endure hardships than settlers who struggled to survive on Federal Reclamation projects after 1902.· His own soldiers respected him because he was always prepared to endure hardships.· She has had to endure hardships and humiliations.

► life

· The old, once old, endured their lives and missed their children.· She married him, had two children in two years and, she says, endured a hard life.· But for both of them, in different ways, there was now an enduring chill in their lives.· While she does not want to die, neither does she want to endure a long life in prison.

► month

· But that hurt is nothing compared to what the powerful blond-haired midfielder has endured these past few months.· He felt weak, like some one who has endured months of broken nights.· This I endured for several months, having no spirit even to complain.· We write as partners in a practice which is presently enduring a three month interregnum.· The symptoms she endured varied from month to month, worsening or improving according to the circumstances of her life at the time.

► pain

· It wasn't only the pain fitzAlan must be enduring that worried her.· Her feelings of desperation were made worse by the nearly constant lower back pain she endured.

► woman

· Being abused is the humiliating situation for both men and women so do not endure this punishment.· I know there are many women who endure similar treatment from men who profess to love them.· Working-class women who endured hardship and self-sacrifice and survived with something of themselves still intact.

► years

· The £2 million former West Ham man has endured an up-and-down four years on Merseyside.· Johnny endured in its brief years in Hartford, Conn.· A name that will endure hundreds of years into the future.

VERB► force

· The red card was rescinded but only after the keeper had been forced to endure several days of shame and regret.· Really, I think I should have strangled the man if forced to endure his companionship aboard a small vessel!· We in the Conservative Party have no truck with that style of gutter journalism which we were forced to endure last Sunday.