on sufferance

常見(jiàn)例句

She is here on sufferance.
她勉強(qiáng)獲準(zhǔn)畱在這裡。
He have been allowed to live in the house on sufferance .
他們的住宅是該街區(qū)最大的住宅。
The desperate tempest hath so bang'd the Turks, That their designment halts: a noble ship of Venice Hath seen a grievous wreck and sufferance On most part of their fleet.
一艘從威尼斯來(lái)的大船一路上看見(jiàn)他們的船衹或沉或破，大部分零落不堪。

India's second party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), remains rooted in the Hindutva (Hindu-ness) movement, which seems to believe that India's 160m Muslims live there on sufferance.
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He will probably survive these tests, but on sufferance.
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If the reaction in Muslim-majority states has been muffled, that could be because certain of them share the Swiss voters' belief that the world really does divide into Huntingtonian blocks, where one religion or another prevails, and the rest exist on sufferance.
ECONOMIST: Islam and Switzerland