2016年5月21日 星期六

not suffer fools gladly




The Paris Review
I feel sorry for people who don’t suffer fools.


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not suffer fools gladly

Be impatient or intolerant towards people one regards as foolish or unintelligent:he was a perfectionist who didn’t suffer fools gladly
With biblical allusion to 2 Cor. 11–19
19因為像你們那樣明智的人,竟也甘心容忍了那些狂妄的人!

More example sentences
  • He admits he is impatient and doesn't suffer fools gladly, but, contrary to the impression given of him in the press, is ‘prepared to listen to people.’
  • She's very easy-going but she doesn't suffer fools gladly.
  • Naipaul, awarded the Nobel Prize in 2001, is a famously bilious traveler; he doesn't suffer fools gladly, and he never romanticizes the grim conditions and hypocrisies that he encounters.




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