patience

noun

1. a card game played by one person

Synonym: solitaire

2. good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

Synonym: forbearancelonganimity

1. 容忍；耐心；忍耐力
If you have patience, you are able to stay calm and not get annoyed, for example when something takes a long time, or when someone is not doing what you want them to do.

e.g. He doesn't have the patience to wait...
他没有耐心等待。
e.g. It was exacting work and required all his patience.
工作很艰巨，需要他有极大的耐心。

2. 单人纸牌游戏
Patience is a card game for only one player.

e.g. He would often sit and play patience.
他常常坐着玩单人纸牌游戏。

3. 考验…的耐心；使忍无可忍
If someone tries your patience or tests your patience, they annoy you so much that it is very difficult for you to stay calm.

e.g. He tended to stutter, which tried her patience...
他老结巴，这叫她难以忍受。
e.g. I feel that she would try the patience of a saint.
我觉得圣人都能被她逼疯。

1. patience

1. 忍辱：所以行菩提心包含一切佛教修持,例如布施(Giving)、持戒(持守道德的行为Moral conduct)、忍辱(Patience)、精进(Vigour)、禅定和般若等六波罗蜜(Six Paramitas注8).

2. 耐性：跟随这些建议与提示,便可运用生活中的任何外境与内境作为禅修对象,培育觉知(awareness) 耐性(patience) 回应(reponse) 舍心(equanimity) 等等心的质素.