PATIENCE

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patience substantiv

1. răbdare; stăruinţă; perseverenţă;

to tax smb.’s patience a pune la încercare răbdarea cuiva;

to exhaust smb 's patience a scoate pe cineva din răbdări / sărite / fire, a exaspera;

have patience! (aveţi) răbdare!;

to lose patience, to get out of patience a-şi pierde răbdarea / calmul / sângele rece;

to be out of (all) patience a fi la capătul răbdărilor, a fi enervat / iritat;

to be out of patience with smb., to have no patience with smb. a nu avea răbdare cu cineva.

2. pasenţă (joc de cărţi);

to play patience a face pasenţe.

I thank you for your patience, Fanny.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Learn from me, dear lady, to submit in patience to the will of heaven!

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The rest of us are, with what patience we can, waiting their return—or the coming of the Count.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

"Say what you like then. I'll listen," said Jo, with a desperate sort of patience.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

We could but pray for patience and wait for the morrow.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

God He knows that I have had great patience with them.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have no patience with him.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Patience, and we'll find it presently.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She tried, however, to compose herself to answer him with patience, when he should have done.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

There he had not always the patience that could have been wished.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)