外部链接:    leo英德   dict有道 百度搜索百度 google谷歌 google图片 wiki维基 百度百科百科   

 tolerable ['tɑlərəbl.]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 可容忍的, 可以的



    tolerable
    [ adj ]
    1. capable of being borne or endured

    2. <adj.all>
      the climate is at least tolerable
    3. about average; acceptable

    4. <adj.all>
      more than adequate as a secretary


    Tolerable \Tol"er*a*ble\, a. [L. tolerabilis: cf. F.
    tol['e]rable. See {Tolerate}.]
    1. Capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either
    physically or mentally.

    As may affect the earth with cold and heat
    Scarce tolerable. --Milton.

    2. Moderately good or agreeable; not contemptible; not very
    excellent or pleasing, but such as can be borne or
    received without disgust, resentment, or opposition;
    passable; as, a tolerable administration; a tolerable
    entertainment; a tolerable translation. --Dryden.
    -- {Tol"er*a*ble*ness}, n. --
    {Tol"er*a*bly}, adv.

    1. Big Business may also find the quotas and lawsuits that would flow from the Neas bill tolerable.
    2. NNPC's share of that is just over Dollars 2bn. NNPC's arrears were at a tolerable level until mid-1993.
    3. One reason is that since the drought began, the rise in world prices has made the programs more tolerable because they are less expensive to finance.
    4. These range from tolerable to execrable but one, in Odessa, was good enough to have convinced some experts.
    5. The only tolerable minor characters are the young British soldiers, whose naive pluck only serves to emphasize the sophisticated slackness of the Pringles and their academician friends.
    6. The ordered delay is itself a prior restraint on reporting - something the Supreme Court in 1976 called "the most serious and least tolerable infringement" of free-press rights.
    7. Baer's rating of UBS has held firm at 12.1 times, but that was distorted by the effect of the recent proxy battle. The banks themselves insist that the sharp decline in their trading results this year is within tolerable limits.
    8. A senior official of the Bahrain government suggested it was time for a joint "declaration" that no interference with shipping was tolerable.
    9. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Hollings' proposal would cut $675 million from the Pentagon's budget, an amount Fitzwater said was tolerable.
    10. When these bases were still quite inaccessible to Soviet attack, such compression was tolerable.
    11. "The inadequacies of this treaty are probably tolerable for a majority who feel that the political consequences in Europe far outweigh concern about the failures and weaknesses in the treaty," Wallop said.
    12. That severe congestion would set in in the mid-1990s "was tolerable with a new airport coming on in 1997," says James Carey, general manager of Jardine Airport Services Ltd., one of three ground-handling agents at Kai Tak.
    13. Traders said they knew before arriving in the morning that the bond market was bound to remain weak after Friday's move by the Bank of Japan to call 1.35 trillion yen ($9.07 billion) of bank loans had jostled yields out of a tolerable range.
    14. Just when the power of the weapons would decay to an unacceptable point is a secret, but the Boston Globe recently reported that Pentagon officials had said an 18-month or two-year pause in tritium production might be tolerable.
    15. In fact, a senior Japan finance ministry official said late Monday in Tokyo that current exchange-rate fluctuations are tolerable, indirectly suggesting currency intervention by the Bank of Japan isn't necessary at this time.
    16. Quarantines are tolerable when a disease spreads quickly and visibly, and when the victims being quarantined have to be isolated for no more than a few weeks.
    17. Then it may be possible to develop incentives for physicians, hospitals and managers that are congruent with promotion of health in an enduring system of quality, equity and tolerable cost.
    18. We all seem much of a muchness, tolerable club players all, and though I am not the best my mortal fear of being the one nobody wants to play with is not realised.
    19. NBC's "Hardball" looks tolerable.
    20. The ERM may work, but it has been no panacea for Europe's economic ills. How long might this squeeze last? German monetary policy will remain tight until German inflation falls back to what the Bundesbank sees as tolerable levels.
    加入收藏 本地收藏 百度搜藏 QQ书签 美味书签 Google书签 Mister Wong
    您正在访问的是
    中国词汇量第二的英语词典
    更多精彩,登录后发现......
    验证码看不清,请点击刷新
      注册