| 词组 | patient |
| 释义 | patient In the senses "able or willing to bear" and "subject to," patient seems to be found most often with of: • ... the United States be patient of misrepresentations of its motives —Current Biography 1948 • ... most scientific modern excavations are patient of chronological reassessment —Times Literary Supp., 18 Dec. 1969 In the more common senses involving calmness and forbearance, patient is found with with: • ... I don't imagine that he would be very patient with dreams —Walter de la Mare, Encounter, December 1954 • He had been all too patient with her, too long —Herman Wouk, Marjorie Morningstar, 1955 In older literature we also find these senses of patient used with toward, in, at, and under, but we have no recent evidence for them, as it happens. They continue to sound idiomatic, however. |
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