"The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the US Congress -- and in the American body politic writ large -- to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense."

VOA: special.2011.06.11

Patience versus short term results and you actually want to have both of those in proper balances, and we're always kind of struggling.

耐心和短期的成果，实际上你,两者都想要，都想做好平衡，我们都在奋斗，都在努力。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

I love reading these particular stories, and just hearing the dialogue between them, and imagining it, because the two of them alternate in losing patience with the Israelites, and wishing to throw them over.

我喜欢读这些特别的故事，读他们之间的对话，想象那个场景，因为他们两个轮流对犹太人,失去耐心，想放弃他们。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He also says the legal process will require time and patience, and he is unwilling to make a guess at Nkunda's future.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

Mr. Carl Icahn: Alright, you have patience now it's a year later and we'll see what happens now.

伊坎先生：嗯，你得有耐心,那件事情发生了一年了，我们都知道现在的情况。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But souvenirs have become a major business as well, and at the 2010 Winter Games, souvenirs require almost as much strategy and patience as winning a medal.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

Astell writes the following: Patience and submission are the only comforts that are left to a poor people who groan under tyranny unless they are strong enough to break the yoke.

阿斯苔写道：,“坚忍与顺从是可怜的人儿仅有的慰籍,她们在暴行面前只能低声抽泣,除非她们有力量挣脱羁绊。

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With the focus and patience of a surgeon, the bearded Egyptian artist delicately places a small piece of stained glass in the face of one of his portraits.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

The thing in the sense I find in our culture has been the most dynamic tension is between, I talked about patience and tenacity and sticking two things.

我们文化里蕴含的,是最有活力的张力，介于耐力和毅力之前，又把两者组合起来。

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She said the United States and others are willing to listen to Iran, but she warned patience would not last forever.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Who among us would be content with the counsels of patience and delay?

我们当中有谁会愿意,看病时一等再等？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Otherwise,he said, patience in the United States and in other NATO countries for the mission could wear thin.

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

But he cautioned that improvements to the economy will take time, and he asked for patience.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

"That requires a lot of strategic patience and this is not going to happen overnight.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

This effort will not remain winnable indefinitely, public support will not last indefinitely, but the cruel irony is to succeed, we need patience,discipline, resolve and time."

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

But he said he feared that the gunmen would lose patience and sell them to al-Shabab, a militant, al-Qaida-linked Islamic group that controls parts of Mogadishu.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

President Obama said he will continue to seek common ground and listen to serious proposals, but made clear he will have little patience for continuing distortions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

"The American people are running out of patience, and with 114 members of the House voting this week against the war , Congress is beginning to catch up to the public."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

U.S.officials indicated that they're prepared to wait a few more days for an Iranian response to the nuclear proposals, but that the Obama administration expects concrete action and does not have unlimited patience.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

U.S.officials say they're willing to wait a few more days for an Iranian response to the nuclear proposals, but they say the Obama administration is looking for concrete action and does not have unlimited patience.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

"We know his patience, his legendary patience, in situations like this. And as we have said in many international forays, we in Ireland have great confidence in his capacity and your capacity to see this through."

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

"It was tradition for the bride to fold 1,000 cranes to wish for a long and prosperous marriage, and also to demonstrate, I guess her patience" Linda's grandparents compiled the first origami handbook ever published in the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

But they say the United States is losing patience with what they see as fruitless overtures to Tehran, and they say they believe that sanctions should be imposed without delay if the long-anticipated visit to Tehran by President Lula fails to produce results.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

"I do appeal to the candidates and to their campaigns and also to the voters to demonstrate the patience and calm that is required for the ECC to carry out its work in order to make sure that when we look back at the entire election process that we can say that it had the credibility that is required,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.24