| 词组 | tolerance, tolerant |
| 释义 | tolerance, tolerant The noun tolerance may be followed by any of several prepositions. Tolerance of usually means "willingness to tolerate": • ... has acquired a tolerance of viewpoints not his own —Milton S. Eisenhower, Johns Hopkins Mag., February 1966 • ... there is no tolerance of dissent —William G. Mather, in Automation, Education and Human Values, ed. W. W. Brickman & S. Lehrer, 1966 Tolerance to is most likely to occur in scientific contexts, where it has the meaning "ability to tolerate": • ... what happens when a person becomes addicted to heroin is that his tolerance to the drug is increased —Nature, 14 Apr. 1972 • ... is said to have had a low tolerance to alcohol — John Corry, N.Y. Times, 27 Mar. 1976 • A plant that possesses only tolerance to insect attack —A. N. Kishaba & G. R. Manglitz, Jour, of Economic Entomology, June 1965 Tolerance of is also sometimes used to mean "ability," and tolerance to is sometimes used to mean "willingness." Tolerance for is commonly used to mean both "willingness" and "ability": • ... the society's decreasing tolerance for hardship — Richard Todd, Atlantic, September 1970 • ... was treated with equal tolerance for his blunders —Samuel Hopkins Adams, Incredible Era, 1939 • ... the dosage has to be increased later, as a tolerance for the drug is built up —S. S. Tomkins, ed., Contemporary Psychopathology, 1943 • ... his body develops a tolerance for the drug — James H. Otto & Albert To wie, Modern Biology, 1973 An uncommon variant, tolerance toward (or towards) is used only to mean "willingness": • ... he should develop ... tolerance toward the opinions of others —Bates College Bulletin, 1 Jan. 1952 The adjective tolerant is most often followed by of • ... could be argued that the chronic smoker is tolerant of marijuana —Solomon H. Snyder, Psychology Today, May 1971 • ... he seemed more tolerant of them than some of the other local men —Edward Hoagland, Harper's, October 1970 Tolerant to is limited to scientific contexts: • Mice that were rendered tolerant to denatured DNA —Science, 5 Oct. 1973 Tolerant is never followed by for. Toward occurs about as frequently after tolerant as it does after tolerance: • ... he had grown more tolerant toward literature — Robertson Davies, Tempest-tost, 1951 |
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