tolerable• An active social life may make the boredom of work more tolerable.• The taste of the medicine is bitter but tolerable.• There must have been a time when each of these practicesceased to be tolerable and reasonablebehaviour.• It was a tolerableexistence, but only just.• Most trafficjams are tolerable, lasting only 5 minutes or so.• The new measures can only hope to keep fraud at tolerable levels.• She will make my misery more tolerable, my slavery only half-slavery, my exile less a banishment.• The survey has produced the first national estimate of below tolerablestandard houses derived from consistently applied methods.• All in all, it was better to have a tolerabletenement than the ideal which no one could afford.• If you can make a bad orchestratolerable, that is valuable.• No manner of violence toward another human being is tolerable to me.• The tolerable was always becoming suspect, and the suspect often tolerated.
VERBS | ADVERBVERBS➤be可忍受▸➤become變得可忍受▸➤make sth, render sth使⋯可忍受▸➤find sth發覺⋯還算好◇She inspected the rooms and found them perfectly tolerable.她仔細看了房間,覺得十分不錯。ADVERB➤barely幾乎不能忍受◇In August the heat is barely tolerable.8 月熱得讓人幾乎無法忍受。➤almost幾乎可以容忍◇A nice breeze made the desert almost tolerable.一陣和風使沙漠變得幾乎可以忍受了。➤quite相當不錯◇This wine is really quite tolerable considering it cost only $4 a bottle.考慮到一瓶只要 4 美元,這葡萄酒真的相當不錯了。