tolerate

tolerate 表示在不赞成或不喜欢的情况下仍然容忍、允许某事，或忍受某种情况。

💡 记忆钩子

核心画面是“把不舒服的东西暂时放在身边而不赶走”：对不良行为是不明确赞成却仍允许，对困难情况则是咬牙忍受。

📝 学习建议

不要把 tolerate 误解成“喜欢”或“完全认可”；它通常暗含说话人并不赞成，只是没有制止，或还能勉强承受。
建议先掌握“容忍某种行为”和“忍受某种情况”这两个核心方向，再根据上下文判断是对外允许还是对内承受。

📖 中文释义

verb

core 容忍；放任

📖 指明明认为某种行为不好，却没有明确制止，暂时让它继续存在。重点不是赞成，而是把不喜欢的东西留在身边。

💡 常用结构是 tolerate + 行为或现象，例如 tolerate corruption 或 tolerate rude behavior。它多用于表达对负面行为的放任，正式语境中常用于批评管理者、机构或群体；不要把它当作积极支持，也不要在后面加 to。

transitive

The school will not tolerate bullying.

这所学校不会容忍欺凌行为。

She tolerated his lies for too long.

她容忍他的谎言太久了。
core 忍受；承受

📖 指身体或心理上能够承受不舒服、困难或令人讨厌的情况，哪怕并不喜欢。这里不是让别人继续做某事，而是自己还能把这种情况撑下去。

💡 常用结构是 tolerate + 名词，或 tolerate + 动名词，描述对疼痛、噪音、压力或某种活动的承受能力。它通常比 bear 更中性、比 put up with 更正式；不要说 tolerate to do，而应说 tolerate doing。

transitive

I can't tolerate the noise while I'm working.

我工作时无法忍受这种噪音。

He can tolerate working under pressure.

他能够忍受在压力下工作。

tolerates present,singular,third-person tolerating participle,present tolerated participle,past tolerated past

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 4 组

put up with something or somebody unpleasant; ; ;

同义词集: digest endure stick out stomach bear stand tolerate support brook abide suffer put up

I cannot bear his constant criticism

The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks

he learned to tolerate the heat

She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage

上位: allow, countenance, let, permit 下位: accept, live with, pay, swallow

allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting; ;

同义词集: allow permit tolerate

We don't allow dogs here

Children are not permitted beyond this point

We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital

上位: allow, countenance, let, permit

have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen or environmental condition

同义词集: tolerate

The patient does not tolerate the anti-inflammatory drugs we gave him

上位: endure, suffer

recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others)

同义词集: tolerate

We must tolerate the religions of others

上位: abide by, honor, honour, observe, respect

🌳 词源

源自拉丁语 tolerātus，和“忍受、承受”有关；现代两个主要意思都保留了这一核心。

Borrowed from Latin tolerātus, the perfect passive participle of tolerō (“to endure”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with Old English þolian (“to tolerate, suffer, bear”) and French tolérer. More at thole.

🔄 变式

tolerated past tolerates present tolerating present

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