1. 这是什么词？
词：bearable
英英释义：If an unpleasant situation is bearable, you can accept or deal with it
例句：Love makes life more bearable.
2. 为什么选这个词？
“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：
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：
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：
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：
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：
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。
3. 怎样学会使用这个词？
1）使用《牛津英语搭配词典》查“bearable”，了解它作为形容词时的常用搭配。
2）翻译下面的句子：
幽默让痛苦不再那么难熬。
Humor can make pain more bearable.
（参考翻译：Humor can make pain more bearable. 或者 Humor makes the unbearable bearable.）
3）结合自己的生活、学习、工作、兴趣等，想象在什么语境下会用到这个表达。先简要描述这个场景，再造句。
例子： 非洲离网能源
场景 ： Lack of inexpensive, reliable energy delivery is one of the chief obstacles to growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly seventy percent of people living in the region lack access to electricity. They find that spending significant amounts of their income on costly and unhealthy forms of energy such as diesel fuel to run generators and kerosene for lanterns hardly bearable. Thanks to the Scaling Off-Grid Energy Grand Challenge forDevelopment with a focus on pay-as-you-go solar home systems and many other new technologies, many people are getting electricity for the first time,every day.
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