patience

patience, endurance

这两个名词均含“忍耐、耐心”之意。
patience: 普通用词，通常指不急不躁的容忍态度或能力。
endurance: 侧重指忍受艰辛或痛苦的能力。

名词 patience:

1. good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
   同义词：forbearance, longanimity
2. a card game played by one person
   同义词：solitaire

1. Her endless patience made her the best nurse in the hospital.
   无限的耐心使她成为这个医院最好的护士。
2. Learning to walk again after his accident required great patience.
   他出事后重新学习走路要有极大的毅力。
3. I must tell you that his patience has its limit.
   我必须告诉你，他的耐心是有限的。
4. His rudeness was beyond my patience.
   他的粗暴使我无法忍受。

pa.tience

n.（名词）
The capacity, quality, or fact of being patient.
耐心：忍耐的能力、品质或事实
Chiefly British The game solitaire.
【多用于英国】 单人纸牌戏

<参考词汇><同义词>patience,long-suffering,resignation,forbearanceThese nouns all denote the capacity to endure hardship, difficulty, or inconvenience without complaint.
这些名词都含有毫无怨言地忍受苦难、困难或不便的能力。
Patience emphasizes calmness, self-control, and the willingness or ability to tolerate delay:
Patience 强调宽容延迟的镇静、自制和意愿或能力：
例句：
.Our patience will achieve more than our force. (Edmund Burke).
.我们的耐力会远胜于我们的力量所能达到的. （埃德蒙德·伯克）。

例句：
.No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out. (Joseph Conrad).
.没有恐惧能比饥饿更可怕，任何耐力也难以克服饥饿. （约瑟夫·康拉德）。

Long-suffering is long and patient endurance, as of wrong or provocation:
Long-suffering 指长久而有耐力地忍受如冤屈或挑衅等：
例句：
The general, a man by no means notable for docility and long-suffering, flew into a rage.
这位将军，一个从不会顺从或忍耐的人，变得暴跳如雷。

Resignation implies an unresisting acceptance of or submission to something trying,as out of despair or necessity:
Resignation 指不反抗的接受或屈服于某一痛苦的事，如因为绝望或需要：
例句：
Too timorous to protest the disrespect with which she was being treated, the young woman could only accept it with resignation.
这个年轻的女人太懦弱了以致无力抗争她所遭受的不敬，她只能接受这一事实。

Forbearance denotes restraint, as in retaliating, demanding what is due, or voicing disapproval or condemnation:
Forbearance 指抑制、忍耐，如在复仇、争取正确事物或表示反对或谴责中：
例句：
.It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. (Patrick Henry).
.彼此施行基督徒的忍耐、爱和慈善是所有人相互的责任. （帕特里克·亨利）。

例句：
The parents showed remarkable forbearance toward their defiant and unruly son.
父母对儿子的桀骜不驯示以了极大宽容。