| 释义 |
patience /pāˈshəns/ noun- The quality of being able calmly to endure suffering, toil, delay, vexation, or any similar condition
- Sufferance
- A card game of various kinds, generally for one person, the object being to fit the cards, as they turn up, into some scheme
- A species of the dock plant (also paˈtience-dockˈ; Rumex patientia) used like spinach, or other species of dock
- Also applied to bistort
ORIGIN: Fr, from L patientia, from patī to bear pāˈtient adjective - Sustaining pain, delay, etc, calmly and without complaint
- Not easily provoked
- Persevering in long-continued or intricate work
- Expecting with calmness
- Long-suffering
- Enduring
- Susceptible (of an interpretation)
noun- A person under medical or surgical treatment
- A doctor's client
- Someone who bears or suffers (obsolete)
transitive verb (Shakespeare)To make patient pāˈtiently adverb |