SAT GRE
外刊例句
- Sidewalk Labs’s proposal notes that the project needs “substantial forbearances from existing [city] laws and regulations”.
人行道实验室的方案指出,该项目需要“现有的(城市)法律和法规给予大量宽容”。
——《经济学人》 - Nelson Mandela, who led the emancipation of South Africa from white minority rule and served as his country’s first black president, becoming an international emblem of dignity and forbearance, died Thursday. He was 95.
纳尔逊·曼德拉,这位把南非从白人少数统治下解放出来的领导者、南非第一位黑人总统、尊严与克制的国际象征,周四离世。享年95岁。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[noun] patient self-control; restraint and tolerance
[名词] 耐心的自我控制;克制和容忍
深入解读
Forbearance 由 forbear (克制、自制、忍住) + ance (状态、性质)构成,16世纪70年代出现时用于法律领域,表示“债务清偿期的延展”或“债权人权利的暂缓行驶”,比如有个谚语叫:
- Forbearance is no acquittance.
缓期不等于作罢(即放宽期限不等于免除债务)。
到了16世纪90年代, forbearance 才开始产生如今的主要含义“克制、宽容、忍耐”,强调在局势艰难或他人挑衅的情况下,依然能够心怀仁慈耐心谨慎,不对他人加以批判、实施惩罚或寻求报复,比如:
- 她回答他无礼的问题时显示出极大的宽容。
She showed great forbearance in answering his rude questions.
名人用例
There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
克制也有个限度,超过了限度就不再是美德。
出自爱尔兰裔英国政治家、作家、哲学家埃德蒙·伯克(Edmund Burke,1729年1月12日-1797年7月9日)。他对法国大革命的反思使其成为辉格党里的保守主义主要人物,常被视为英美保守主义的奠基者。
同近义词
- endurance: the fact or power of enduring an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving way
- resignation: the acceptance of something undesirable but inevitable
- stoicism: the endurance of pain or hardship without the display of feelings and without complaint