词:bearable

场景:增加运动强度

例句:Considering I am inhumanly endurable a person and finding the motion strength bearable to me , the PT decided to move to the next level.

词:bearable

英英释义:If an unpleasant situation is bearable, you can accept or deal with it

“bearable”是动词“bear”的形容词形式,意思是“可忍受的”,我们在口语和写作中都能用上它。比如想表达“人生不易,还好我们有爱情”这层意思,我们就可以说:

1. Love makes life more bearable.

我们想说某个人物、情况虽然不尽人意,但是还尚可,就可以用到 bearable。冬天很冷,不过和朋友一起吃顿火锅可以让冬天觉得好过一些,这时我们就可以说:

2. Having hot pot with friends makes the harsh winter more bearable, if not enjoyable.

《经济学人》在一篇讨论自杀的文章中也用到了 bearable:

3. As people move to cities and the grip of tradition loosens, women have more choice about whom they marry or live with, making life more bearable.

这段话大概是说,女性对婚恋有了更多选择,这使得她们的生活还过得去。

在一篇讨论异地婚姻的文章中也用到了 bearable:

4. Technological change has made living separate lives more bearable, and has thus probably contributed to long-distance marriage becoming more common.

当我们想表示“科技让异地恋不再那么难熬”时,就可以套用这个句型说成:

5. Technology has made long-distance relationships more bearable.

bearable 的反义词是“unbearable”也很常见,比如米兰昆德拉的小说《不能承受的生命之轻》的英文名字就是 The Unbearable Lightness of Being。

Collacation:

bearable adjective

VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITION

VERBS

• be

• become

• make sth

The camaraderie among fellow employees made the tedious work just bearable.

• find sth

He found the dullness of his work hardly bearable.

ADVERB

• almost

• quite, somewhat (AmE)

• just

PREPOSITION

• for

The money made life more bearable for her.

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