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/ˈtɑːlərəns/ · /ˈtɒlərəns/
Tolerance is the ability to accept or allow something you might not like or agree with, such as other people's beliefs or lifestyles. In medicine, tolerance means your body has gotten used to a drug so it has less effect; in engineering, tolerance is the allowed amount a part's size can vary.
容忍、包容；(藥物/工程)耐受度、公差
複數 tolerances
組成Built from tolerate/tolerant with the ending -ance, which turns it into a noun naming the quality.
原始詞典資料7 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。
tolerancenoun/ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
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obsoleteThe ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
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The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
- Near-synonym: forbearance
- Both [Ze'ev] Jabotinsky and [David] Ben-Gurion also wrote songs of praise to the Ottoman Empire, its tolerance toward ethnic minorities in general — and to Jews in particular — as well as to the democratic changes it was undergoing.
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The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism.
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The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism.
- Since he hadn't had any alcohol in years, his tolerance was very low, and it only took two drinks for him to get sloshed.
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The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
- Our customers can generally accept ten times the tolerance which we can achieve in our machining operations.
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The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
toleranceverb/ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
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To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance.
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。