0 the ability to wait, or to continue doing something despite difficulties, or to suffer without complaining or becoming annoyed -- 忍耐,耐心
You have to have such a lot of patience when you're dealing with kids. 和孩子相處需要有這麼大的耐心才行。
In the end I lost my patience and shouted at her. 最後我失去了耐性,對她大吼大叫起來。
He's a good teacher, but he doesn't have much patience with the slower pupils. 他是個好老師,但對較遲鈍的學生沒多大耐心。
Making small-scale models takes/requires a great deal of patience. 做小型模型需要極大的耐心。
Their youngest son was beginning to try my patience (= annoy me). 他們的小兒子開始讓我忍無可忍。
Patience - they'll be here soon! 別急——他們馬上就到!
1 a game played with cards by one person -- 單人紙牌遊戲
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.