0 the ability to wait, or to continue doing something despite difficulties, or to suffer without complaining or becoming annoyed:
You have to have such a lot of patience when you're dealing with kids.
He's a good teacher, but he doesn't have much patience with the slower pupils.
Making small-scale models takes/requires a great deal of patience.
Their youngest son was beginning to try my patience (= annoy me).
Patience - they'll be here soon!
1 a game played with cards by one person
2 the ability to accept delay, suffering, or annoyance without complaining or becoming angry:
This patience derives from understanding that the intervention will have little impact if it is forcibly imposed, an insight that develops during a speaker's life.
This is a book exhibiting great industry and immense patience with its subject matter, but it hardly excites.
For example, application forms are not sent and not processed or processed with exceedingly long delays in the hope that the applicant loses patience.
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素質, 忍耐,耐心, 紙牌遊戲…
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