long-suffering

英 [ˌlɒŋ ˈsʌfərɪŋ]

美 [ˌlɔːŋ ˈsʌfərɪŋ]

adj.  长期忍受的; 忍耐的

Collins.1

牛津词典

adj.

• 长期忍受的；忍耐的
  bearing problems or another person's unpleasant behaviour with patience
  1. his long-suffering wife
     他那长期受罪的妻子

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 长期忍受的；饱受磨难的
  Someone who islong-sufferingpatiently puts up with a lot of trouble or unhappiness, especially when it is caused by someone else.
  1. He went back to Yorkshire to join his loyal, long-suffering wife.
     他回到约克郡，与对他忠贞不贰、饱受磨难的妻子团聚。

英英释义

noun

• patient endurance of pain or unhappiness
  Synonym:long-sufferance

adj

• patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble
  1. an enduring disposition
  2. a long-suffering and uncomplaining wife
  Synonym:enduring

双语例句

• He vented his ill-temper on his long-suffering wife.
  他把怒气向长久受苦的妻子发泄。
• As if one were to begin the day with long-suffering, and hire a man to hoe his potatoes;
  好像一个人，每天一早就要苦修，还雇了一个人来给他种土豆；
• But he owes the long-suffering, still-suffering, country more.
  但是他欠长期受苦、现在仍在受苦的美国人民更多。
• Love is long-suffering and kind.
  爱是长久忍耐，和蔼仁慈的。
• Tim. 1:16 But because of this I was shown mercy, that in me, the foremost, Jesus Christ might display all His long-suffering for a pattern to those who are to believe on Him unto eternal life.
  提前一16然而，我所以蒙了怜悯，是要叫耶稣基督在我这罪魁身上，显示他一切的恒忍，给后来信靠他得永远生命的人作榜样。
• Rom.2:4 Or do you despise the riches of His kindness and forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that God's kindness is leading you to repentance?
  罗二4还是你藐视他丰富的恩慈、宽容与恒忍，不晓得神的恩慈是领你悔改？
• If GM is successful this time, the payoff could be profits long-suffering investors never thought possible.
  如果通用汽车这次能取得成功，带来的可能是望眼欲穿的投资者从来不敢奢望的利润。
• An enduring disposition; a long-suffering and uncomplaining wife.
  坚忍的性格；一个长期受苦并且毫无怨言的妻子。
• After writing this week about the link between marriage and better sleep, I heard from several skeptical readers who were the long-suffering bed partners of snorers.
  在这周写了关于婚姻与更好睡眠相关性的东西后，我听到了几个长期遭受伴侣夜间鼻鼾困扰的读者对此表示怀疑。
• I think Tessa should plump for Malcolm, her long-suffering admirer.
  我想特莎应该选择长期默默爱慕她的马尔科姆。