| 正面 | 4211.patience 英 ['peɪʃ(ə)ns]美 ['peʃns]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. 发音：陪生死(即：“陪你从生到死”的简称)。n. 耐性，耐心；忍耐，容忍 例句： 1. Non-violence and patience are the central tenets of their faith.非暴力和忍耐是他们的信仰的核心原则。 patience 耐心，忍耐来自拉丁语pati,忍受，承受，词源同passion,passive.即忍受力，忍耐，耐心。 patience (n.)c. 1200, "quality of being willing to bear adversities, calm endurance of misfortune, suffering, etc.," from Old French pacience "patience; sufferance, permission" (12c.) and directly from Latin patientia "patience, endurance, submission," also "indulgence, leniency; humility; submissiveness; submission to lust;" literally "quality of suffering." It is an abstract noun formed from the adjective patientem (nominative patiens) "bearing, supporting; suffering, enduring, permitting; tolerant," but also "firm, unyielding, hard," used of persons as well as of navigable rivers, present participle of pati "to suffer, endure," from PIE root *pe(i)- "to damage, injure, hurt" (see passion).Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. [Ambrose Bierce, "Devil's Dictionary," 1911]Meaning "constancy in effort" is attested from 1510s. Meaning "card game for one person" is from 1816." |