单词	tolerable
释义	tolerabletol‧e‧ra‧ble /ˈtɒlərəbəl $ ˈtɑː-/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES An active social life may make the boredom of work more tolerable. It was a tolerable existence, but only just. Most traffic jams are tolerable, lasting only 5 minutes or so. The new measures can only hope to keep fraud at tolerable levels. The taste of the medicine is bitter but tolerable. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS All in all, it was better to have a tolerable tenement than the ideal which no one could afford. If you can make a bad orchestra tolerable, that is valuable. No manner of violence toward another human being is tolerable to me. She will make my misery more tolerable, my slavery only half-slavery, my exile less a banishment. The tolerable was always becoming suspect, and the suspect often tolerated. The survey has produced the first national estimate of below tolerable standard houses derived from consistently applied methods. There must have been a time when each of these practices ceased to be tolerable and reasonable behaviour. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorsomething unpleasant that you can stand► bearable a situation or type of behaviour that is bearable is difficult or unpleasant, but you are just able to bear it: · The only things that made her life bearable were the occasional visits from her grandchildren.· His leg hasn't quite healed yet, but pain-killers make it bearable. ► tolerable a situation that is tolerable is bad but you are able to accept it and deal with it: · It was a tolerable existence, but only just.· The new measures can only hope to keep fraud at tolerable levels.· An active social life may make the boredom of work more tolerable. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► more · But its major effect was to make life slightly more tolerable for those at the sharp end of the beat system.· She will make my misery more tolerable, my slavery only half-slavery, my exile less a banishment.· There are also a lot more things we can do to make this treatment more tolerable.· Fortunately, this soon declined to a more tolerable rate. 1a situation that is tolerable is not very good, but you are able to accept it OPP  intolerable → tolerate:  The apartment is really too small, but it’s tolerable for the time being.2unpleasant or painful and only just able to be accepted OPP  intolerable → tolerate:  The heat in this room is barely tolerable.
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