long-suffering

英 [ˌlɒŋ ˈsʌfərɪŋ]

美 [ˌlɔːŋ ˈsʌfərɪŋ]

adj.  长期忍受的; 忍耐的

Collins.1

牛津词典

adj.

• 长期忍受的；忍耐的
  bearing problems or another person's unpleasant behaviour with patience
  1. his long-suffering wife
     他那长期受罪的妻子

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 长期忍受的；饱受磨难的
  Someone who islong-sufferingpatiently puts up with a lot of trouble or unhappiness, especially when it is caused by someone else.
  1. He went back to Yorkshire to join his loyal, long-suffering wife.
     他回到约克郡，与对他忠贞不贰、饱受磨难的妻子团聚。

英英释义

noun

• patient endurance of pain or unhappiness
  Synonym:long-sufferance

adj

• patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble
  1. an enduring disposition
  2. a long-suffering and uncomplaining wife
  Synonym:enduring

双语例句

• If GM is successful this time, the payoff could be profits long-suffering investors never thought possible.
  如果通用汽车这次能取得成功，带来的可能是望眼欲穿的投资者从来不敢奢望的利润。
• I think Tessa should plump for Malcolm, her long-suffering admirer.
  我想特莎应该选择长期默默爱慕她的马尔科姆。
• Our long-suffering mining communities deserve better than this.
  我们长期受苦受难的采矿群体应该得到比这更好的待遇。
• But he owes the long-suffering, still-suffering, country more.
  但是他欠长期受苦、现在仍在受苦的美国人民更多。
• Although he keeps leaving her, his long-suffering girlfriend always takes him back.
  尽管他屡次离开她，但坚忍不拔的女友总是把他接回来。
• Even Ken, Barbie's long-suffering, chino-wearing boyfriend, has had a makeover and new hairstyle.
  即使是芭比长期逆来顺受、总穿着斜纹棉布的男朋友肯（Ken），也做了美容，换了新发型。
• It reflects the long-suffering of the Chinese nation's suffering section of the modern history of bloody fighting.
  它反映了灾难深重的中华民族历经苦难，浴血抗争的一段现代史。
• This would give its long-suffering inhabitants a stake in the Renaissance of the oil industry.
  这将让该地区长期受苦的居民分享石油业复苏带来的部分好处。
• After writing this week about the link between marriage and better sleep, I heard from several skeptical readers who were the long-suffering bed partners of snorers.
  在这周写了关于婚姻与更好睡眠相关性的东西后，我听到了几个长期遭受伴侣夜间鼻鼾困扰的读者对此表示怀疑。
• He vented his ill-temper on his long-suffering wife.
  他把怒气向长久受苦的妻子发泄。