| 单词 | bearable |
| 释义 | bearable (once / 1278 pages) adj Something that you can live through, disagreeable as it may be, is bearable. The world's most boring math class, while tedious, is bearable. If you can stand to do something, it's bearable. You might have several tricks for making a hot summer day bearable, like drinking iced tea or sitting beside a fan. A shy child might find the first day of kindergarten more bearable if his best friend is in his class. The adjective bearable comes from the sense of bear that means "endure" or "get through." The origin is the Old English beran, from a Germanic root. WORD FAMILYbearable: bearably, unbearable+/bear: bearable, bearer, bearing, bearish, bears, borne, forebear, overbear/bearer: bearers/bearing: bearings, nonbearing/bearish: bearishly/forebear: forebears/overbear: overbearing, overbears, overbore, overborne/overbearing: overbearingly, overbearingness/unbearable: unbearably USAGE EXAMPLESThese costs are bearable for both banks, though Deutsche still faces a huge challenge to get to its capital requirements for 2019. Wall Street Journal(Dec 23, 2016) One block to the east at Sixth Avenue, Pike begins its bearable rise to the hill. Seattle Times(Dec 08, 2016) The only reason the chatter is bearable is because it always come paired, eventually, with silence. Slate(Nov 21, 2016) adj capable of being borne though unpleasant Syn endurable, sufferable, supportable tolerable capable of being borne or endured |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。