patience
n. 容忍; 毅力; 单人纸牌游戏
If you have patience, you are able to stay calm and not get annoyed, for example when something takes a long time, or when someone is not doing what you want them to do.
He doesn't have the patience to wait...
他没有耐心等待。
It was exacting work and required all his patience.
工作很艰巨,需要他有极大的耐心。
Patience is a card game for only one player.
He would often sit and play patience.
他常常坐着玩单人纸牌游戏。
If someone tries your patience or tests your patience, they annoy you so much that it is very difficult for you to stay calm.
He tended to stutter, which tried her patience...
他老结巴,这叫她难以忍受。
I feel that she would try the patience of a saint.
我觉得圣人都能被她逼疯。
1. good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
2. a card game played by one person
patience, endurance
这两个名词均含"忍耐,耐心"之意。
lose patience (或 lose one's patience)
发脾气
The old granny talked endlessly, but we listened to her with great patience.
老奶奶叨絮不休, 不过我们还是耐心地听着.
Even mother's patience was wearing thin.
甚至连母亲都渐渐变得不耐烦了.
My patience is not inexhaustible.
我的忍耐是有限的.
I haven't the patience to hear your complaints again.
我没耐性再听你的抱怨.
He possessed his soul in patience.
他耐心等待.