- 1
Reasonably, but not very — enough to be acceptable and no more. "The food was tolerably good" means it was all right, nothing to complain about, nothing to praise either. It sits before an adjective or adverb, and it quietly lowers the praise that follows: 'tolerably well' is weaker than 'well'. The word sounds rather formal and old-fashioned; you meet it in nineteenth-century novels far more than in speech today, and a student is much more likely to hear 'fairly', 'reasonably', or 'pretty' in real conversation. Worth being able to read; not a word you need to reach for. There is a second, rarer use meaning 'in a way that can be endured', as in 'tolerably painful', but that is uncommon.
還算、尚可地（不到很好，但可以接受）
組成tolerable + -ly. 'Tolerable' means 'able to be put up with', from 'tolerate' — to bear or allow something. The '-ly' makes it an adverb. So the underlying idea is 'to a degree you can put up with' — which is exactly why it sounds like faint praise.
同家族的字
- toleratethe root verb — to bear or put up with
- tolerablethe adjective '-ly' was added to
- tolerationsame root: allowing what you might not like
- tolerancesame root
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
tolerablyadv/ˈtɑləɹəbli/
- 1
In a tolerable manner; to an extent that can be tolerated.
- I don't like the music, but it's tolerably quiet.
- 2
datedReasonably; acceptably; somewhat.
- With a small knife or larding pin, cut holes in the beef, to receive the bacon thus prepared; place the lardings tolerably thick and even; rub the beef over with the remainder of the seasoning […]
- At least, he may claim that we should bring to him a tolerably patient and receptive mind, not a repelling, refusive mind; in a word, that we should treat him with decency, if we profess to attend to him at all.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。