patient是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 有耐心的， 能忍耐的n. 病人， 患者，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wanted to see the dark earth, to smell its earthy fecundity, to see the patient wintry vegetation, to feel the sunshine touch a response in the buds.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed a sullen, patient child; hardened, perhaps, to illtreatment: he would stand Hindley's blows without winking or shedding a tear, and my pinches moved him only to draw in a breath and open his eyes, as if he had hurt himself by accident, and nobody was to blame.
-- Now, Mr. Earnshaw did not understand jokes from his children: he had always been strict and grave with them; and Catherine, on her part, had no idea why her father should be crosser and less patient in his ailing condition than he was in his prime.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That he was naturally of a very wan and pallid aspect, however, his hollow cheeks, sharp features, and sunken eyes, no less than a certain look of patient endurance, sufficiently testified.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few shrivelled and blackened vestiges of what had once been stuffed animals, desiccated mummies in jars that had once held spirit, a brown dust of departed plants: that was all!I was sorry for that, because I should have been glad to trace the patient readjustments by which the conquest of animated nature had been attained.
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