Front | bearable |
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Pron | ['berəbl] |
Back | 【BEARABLE】 She said to the doctor that her pain would be just bearable. 她告诉医生说她的疼痛勉强可以忍受。 【重点词汇】 bearable adj. 可忍受的 反: intolerable |
Vocab | bearablecapable of being borne though unpleasant
Something that you can live through, disagreeable as it may be, is bearable. The world's most boring math class, while tedious, is bearable. If you can stand to do something, it's bearable. You might have several tricks for making a hot summer day bearable, like drinking iced tea or sitting beside a fan. A shy child might find the first day of kindergarten more bearable if his best friend is in his class. The adjective bearable comes from the sense of bear that means "endure" or "get through." The origin is the Old English beran, from a Germanic root. All forms of 'bearable' will appear on average once every 1277 pages. bear bearable bearer bearing bearish forebear overbear unbearable nonbearing overbearing overbearingly overbearingness unbearably |
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