英语词汇“tolerate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINtolerate

Origin:

1500-1600 Latin past participle of tolerare

VERB TABLE

tolerate

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	tolerate
	he, she, it	tolerates
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	tolerated
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have tolerated
	he, she, it	has tolerated
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had tolerated
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will tolerate
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have tolerated

Continuous Form
Present	I	am tolerating
	he, she, it	is tolerating
	you, we, they	are tolerating
Past	I, he, she, it	was tolerating
	you, we, they	were tolerating
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been tolerating
	he, she, it	has been tolerating
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been tolerating
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be tolerating
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been tolerating

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Drug dealers will not be tolerated in this community.
For years the workers have had to tolerate low wages and terrible working conditions.
I told him I wasn't going to tolerate his drinking any longer.
If you can tolerate the side-effects, HRT can help the symptoms enormously.
Mom tolerated Dad's smoking.
She seems to be able to tolerate any kind of behaviour from the students.
The medication is well tolerated by most patients.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

But adjustment went on all the same because it was the only way of making yourself tolerate a condition which you loathed.
For one to sue another would have been a divisive act not easily tolerated.
It will tolerate most water conditions, although very hard water may cause the fish's eyes to become cloudy.
Laura tolerated his tirades because she loved him, and she forgave him everything as one forgives a child.
Maybe there were secret forces she could not tolerate.
On the other hand, bridal pregnancy was widely tolerated despite the exhortations of the professional moralists.
Some animals can tolerate human medicines like Dramamine.
We will not tolerate people who smile and then go ahead and take money out of our pockets.

THESAURUS► tolerate

verb [transitive] to accept unpleasant behaviour or an unpleasant situation, even though you do not like it: · We will not tolerate any kind of racism.· People tolerated corruption for years.

► put up with something

to accept unpleasant behaviour or an unpleasant situation even though you do not like it. Put up with is less formal than tolerate, and is the usual word to use in everyday English: · I don’t see how you can put up with the constant noise.· Many people put up with poor pay and working conditions because they are afraid of losing their jobs.

► accept

verb [transitive] to agree or deal with a situation you do not like but cannot change: · She found it hard to accept his death.

► stand/bear

verb [transitive, not in progressive] to accept or be forced to accept an unpleasant situation – used especially about things which cause you pain or make you feel upset. Bear is more formal than stand: · I don’t know how you’ve stood it for so long.· Maisie couldn’t bear the pain any longer.· How do you stand living in such a mess?

► take

verb [transitive] informal to accept an unpleasant situation or someone’s unpleasant behaviour without becoming upset: · She was shouting at him and he just stood there and took it.· I can’t take much more of this.

► live with something

to accept a bad situation as a permanent part of your life that you cannot change: · I’ve had back pain for many years and I’ve just learned to live with it.· The guilt I felt was very hard to live with.

► endure

verb [transitive] written to accept an unpleasant or difficult situation for a long time: · The victims of this war have endured tremendous pain and suffering.· The refugees endured cramped and filthy conditions.

Longman Language Activatorto accept a situation that you do not like► accept

to accept a situation that you do not like but you cannot change: · Divorce is hard on children, but they have to accept it.learn/come to accept (=eventually accept): · In the US, people have come to accept that they will probably have several different jobs over the course of their career.accept the fact (that): · It was difficult for Paul to accept the fact that he was going bald.accept that: · Steptoe finally accepted that his son didn't want to continue working in the family business.

► put up with something

to accept an annoying situation or someone's annoying behaviour, without trying to stop it or change it: · I don't know how you put up with this noise day after day.· The kind of treatment that you have to put up with as a new army recruit is pretty horrible.

► tolerate

to accept an unpleasant situation, without trying to change it: · For years the workers have had to tolerate low wages and terrible working conditions.· I told him I wasn't going to tolerate his drinking any longer.

► resign yourself to/be resigned to

to realize that you must accept an unpleasant situation, because you cannot prevent it or avoid it: · The children have had to resign themselves to being without their father.resign yourself to the fact (that): · I'm resigned to the fact that I'm not going to get the job.

► make the best of it/make the best of a bad situation

to accept a situation that you do not like, and try to enjoy it or make it less bad: · It's not the university that I really wanted to go to, but I suppose I'll just have to make the best of it.· Six months after the earthquake, city residents continue to make the best of a bad situation.

► bite the bullet

to accept an unpleasant or difficult situation and say that you will deal with it: · It's not easy, but as a manager, sometimes you have to bite the bullet and fire people.

► beggars can't be choosers

spoken said when you have to accept something you do not like because you do not have the money or power to choose anything else: · It would be nice to have a suit with a better fit, but as they say, beggars can't be choosers.

► that's the way the cookie crumbles

spoken said when telling someone that a difficult situation must be accepted, especially because there is no way to prevent it or there is nothing anyone can do about it: · "Sorry you didn't get the job, Mike." "Yeah, thanks. I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles."

► grit your teeth

to accept a situation or job you do not like and try to deal with it in a determined way: · Rescue workers here have little choice but to grit their teeth and get on with the grim task of recovering the bodies.· I was desperately unhappy in that job, but had to grit my teeth and stay smiling for the sake of my children.

to accept an unpleasant situation► put up with

to accept an annoying situation or someone's annoying behaviour, without trying to stop it or change it: · I don't know how you put up with all this noise day after day.· You see what I have to put up with - the kids never stop arguing.· Well, you put up with the danger and bad conditions, because you need to feed your family.

► can stand

to accept or be forced to accept an unpleasant situation: · Don't bring me your problems, I've already got as much trouble as I can stand.· There are cats in every room. I don't know how she can stand it.can stand doing something: · I don't think I'll be able to stand sharing an office with Dana.stand another hour/minute/moment etc: · Can you stand another minute of this awful music? Shall I turn it off?

► bear

to accept pain or an unpleasant situation that makes you angry, sad, or upset: · My leg really hurts -- I'm not sure how much longer I can bear it.· Talking to a counsellor can help divorcees to bear the pain of separation.· The trial was a great scandal but she bore it all with courage and dignity.be hard to bear: · Her loneliness was hard to bear, after her husband died.

► tolerate

to accept an annoying situation or someone's annoying behaviour, without trying to stop it or change it. Tolerate is more formal than put up with: · She seems to be able to tolerate any kind of behaviour from the students.· For years, the workers have had to tolerate low wages and terrible working conditions.· If you can tolerate the side-effects, HRT can help the symptoms enormously.

► endure

written to accept or be forced to accept a very unpleasant or difficult situation for a long time: · She endured a barrage of open abuse and racism during her time at college.· The people in this country have endured almost a decade of economic hardship.

► take/handle

informal to accept an unpleasant situation or someone's unpleasant behaviour without becoming upset: · I've tried to be understanding, but quite honestly, this is more than I can take.· Tell me what happened -- I can handle it.· Are you going to argue with me, or are you just going to stand there and take it?

► live with

to accept an unpleasant situation as a permanent part of your life that you cannot change: · You have to learn to live with stress.· I found the burden of guilt very difficult to live with.· None of us really like the new system, but we've got to learn to live with it.live with yourself (=accept something bad or wrong that you have done): · You should be careful before you do anything rash. Remember, you'll have to live with yourself afterwards.

► be hard to stomach

to be difficult for you to accept: · Every year the Christmas shopping season seems to start earlier, a fact which many people find hard to stomach.· I found this lecture from Chris of all people hard to stomach.

► grin and bear it

spoken to accept an unpleasant or difficult situation as happily as you can, because you cannot change it: · Well, I said to myself, I'll just have to grin and bear it.· The message was clear - no matter how insulting passengers became, we couldn't do anything but grin and bear it.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► barely

· When not in exile, Stevanovic remained a barely tolerated nonperson at home, decidedly unwelcome in public.· I did not understand her, and she could barely tolerate me.· In private, they barely tolerated one another.

► only

· Autonomy on the part of employees is only tolerated to the extent that it contributes to productivity and profitability.· I come from a family where blood feuds are not only tolerated, but actively encouraged.· This elicited squeals, laughter and elaborate pay-back schemes, all tolerated only as long as the work continued smoothly.· Prostitution was not only tolerated, but it had been institutionalized.

► well

· A hot meal twice a day is also well tolerated.· The medication is well tolerated by most patients and does not have the habituation problems of antianxiety agents.· Both the basal diet and the sulphate supplement were well tolerated by all the volunteers and no gastrointestinal symptoms were reported.· Radiotherapy was well tolerated in all but one patient.

NOUN► society

· Moreover, should she in her widowed state even consider a lover? Society would not tolerate it.· Should society tolerate such privately collected taxes?

VERB► prepare

· She had been prepared to tolerate them for the sake of Nicolai's handsome uniformed appearance and dark romantic gaze.· Employers were prepared to tolerate these rights and provisions in return for a profitable economic environment.· These are figures that the House is not prepared to tolerate.· We enjoy its company but we are not prepared to tolerate any inconvenience.· Completion of the eastern counties railway network removed the last barrier; now labour was prepared to move rather than tolerate chronic want.