tolerable

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++tol·e·ra·ble /ˈtɒlərəbəl $ ˈtɑː-/ adjective  1  STAND/BEARa situation that is tolerable is not very good, but you are able to accept it 〔状况〕可接受的，过得去的，尚好的 OPP intolerable → tolerate The apartment is really too small, but it’s tolerable for the time being. 这套公寓实在太小，不过暂时还能凑合。2  STAND/BEARunpleasant or painful and only just able to be accepted 尚可忍受的 OPP intolerable → tolerate The heat in this room is barely tolerable. 这房间里热得让人要受不了了。

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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 practices ceased to be tolerable and reasonable behaviour.• It was a tolerable existence, but only just.• Most traffic jams 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 tolerable standard houses derived from consistently applied methods.• All in all, it was better to have a tolerable tenement than the ideal which no one could afford.• If you can make a bad orchestra tolerable, 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.

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tolerable
tol‧e‧ra‧ble /ˈtɒlərəbəl $ ˈtɑː-/ adjective
1. a situation that is tolerable is not very good, but you are able to accept it
   OPP  intolerable ⇨ tolerate:
    The apartment is really too small, but it’s tolerable for the time being.
2. unpleasant or painful and only just able to be accepted
   OPP  intolerable ⇨ tolerate:
    The heat in this room is barely tolerable.

tol·er·ableBrE /ˈtɒlərəbl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtɑːlərəbl/ 🔊 adjective (formal) fairly good, but not of the best quality 尚好的；过得去的；还可以的 SYN reasonable ◆a tolerable degree of success说得过去的成功that you can accept or bear, although unpleasant or painful 可接受的；可忍受的；可容忍的 SYN bearable ◆At times, the heat was barely tolerable. 有时天气炎热得几乎令人难以忍受。🔊🔊 OPP intolerable ▸ tol·er·ably BrE /ˈtɒlərəbli/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtɑːlərəbli/ 🔊 adverb◆He plays the piano tolerably (well).他钢琴弹得还算不错。