1.bear v. 忍受，忍耐
普通用词，指忍受饥饿、寒冷、疼痛、不幸、困难、侮辱等，多强调忍受者的勇敢和坚毅。
[动词+-ing短语, 动词+带to的不定式]
He can't bear being laughed at.
他无法忍受遭人嘲笑。
He can't bear to be laughed at.
他无法忍受遭人嘲笑。
They will have to bear the misery of living in constant fear of war.
他们不得不忍受长期生活在战争恐惧中的痛苦。
A strong man will bear hardship without complaining.
一个坚强的人会忍受困苦而不抱怨。
I cannot bear sleeping in a cold bed.
睡在冷冰冰的床上我受不了。
I can't bear having cats in the house.
家里有猫我可受不了。
She was afraid that her friend wouldn't be able to bear the pain.
她担心她的朋友忍受不了这种痛苦。
The pain was almost more than he could bear.
这种痛苦几乎使他无法忍受。
She couldn't bear the thought of losing him.
失去他的情况她想都不敢想。
2.endure v. [正式] 忍受，忍耐
〔强调长期性，主要指对灾难、困难、疼痛等长时间地忍受而不抱怨。
[动词+-ing短语, 动词+带to的不定式]
He can't endure to be defeated.
他无法忍受失败。
He can't endure being defeated.
他无法忍受失败。
The pain was almost too great to endure.
痛苦得几乎难以忍受。
Be quiet! I can't endure the racket any longer.
请安静点！我再也忍受不了这吵闹声了。
As a Black player, he often has to endure racist taunts.
作为黑人运动员，他经常得忍受种族歧视性的奚落。
It takes patience to endure hardship.
忍受苦难需要耐力。
She could not endure the thought of parting.
一想到分别她就无法忍受。
They had to endure a long wait before the case came to trial.
在此案审理前他们只得忍受长时间的等待。
The family endured a miserable existence in a cramped apartment.
这家人在狭小的公寓里艰难度日。
She longs for a love that can endure all things.
她渴望一份能经受住一切考验的爱情。
She has to endure ten months' loss of liberty.
她得忍受10个月失去自由之苦。
They endured years of suffering and privation.
他们饱受多年的煎熬与贫困。
They endured five years of privation during the second world war
第二次世界大战期间，他们忍受了5年的贫困生活。
He endured excruciating agonies before he finally expired.
在最终离世前他经受了极大的痛苦。
The islanders endured centuries of exploitation.
那个岛上的居民忍受了数个世纪的剥削。
She endured the monstrous behaviour for years
多年来，她一直忍受着这种骇人听闻的暴行。
You can only guess at what mental suffering they endure
你只能猜测他们忍受着多大的精神痛苦。
He also talked briefly about the isolation he endured while in captivity.
他还简单谈及了他被俘期间忍受的孤独。
Then something seemed to snap in me. I couldn't endure any more.
这时候，我的心里像有个东西突然绷断了——我再也忍受不了啦。
3.stand v. 经受；忍受
作“经受”解时，常与 could 或 can 连用，指某人或某物经得起伤害等；作“忍受”解时，主要指对某人、某种困难情况的忍受或承受，通常用于疑问句和否定句中，常可与 bear 换用。
They stood the test of natural calamity.
他们经受住了自然灾害的考验。
I can't stand much more of this.
我可承受不了太多这样的事。
How can you stand/bear that noise?
你怎么能忍受那种噪音呢?
I cannot stand/bear to hear such fallacies any more.
这类谬论我再也听不下去了。
She cannot stand/bear her husband coming home late all the time.
她不能容忍丈夫老是晚回家。
His heart won't stand the strain much longer.
他的心脏对这种压力承受不了多久。
Modern plastics can stand very high and very low temperatures.
新型塑料能承受很高和很低的温度。
4.sustain v. [正式] 遭受，经受
指受到损害、创伤或金钱方面的损失。
Two soldiers from his squad sustained serious injuries.
他队中的两名士兵受了重伤。
Four police officers sustained serious injuries in the explosion
4名警官在爆炸中受重伤。
He sustained serious neck injuries after he broke someone's fall.
有人坠落压在他身上，致使他颈部受重伤。
Every aircraft in there has sustained some damage.
那里的每架飞机都受到了一些损坏。
Several companies have sustained heavy financial losses due to the unfair competition.
好几家公司都因不正当竞争而遭受了严重的经济损失。
The company sustained losses of millions of dollars.
公司遭受了数百万元的巨大损失。
The people who sustain the worst losses are usually those who overreach.
不自量力者往往摔得最惨。
The ice will not sustain your weight.
这冰承受不了你的体重。
I am sustained by letters of support and what people say to me in ordinary daily life
这些支持的信件和人们每天对我的鼓励一直支撑着我。
5.tolerate v. 忍受，容忍
指以克制的态度容忍令人反感或厌恶的事物，含默认、宽容之意。
We cannot tolerate such waste.
我们不能容忍这种浪费现象。
We can't tolerate his mistakes.
我们不能容忍他的错误。
I don't know how you tolerate that noise!
我不知道你怎么能忍受那样的噪音！
The harassment had become too much to tolerate and he decided to move out
骚扰越来越过分，他难以忍受，决定搬走。
American customers no longer tolerate shoddy goods.
美国的顾客不再容忍劣等货了。
Elizabeth tolerated Sarah's antics.
伊丽莎白容忍了萨拉的搞怪。
If this can be tolerated, what cannot?
是可忍也，孰不可忍也？
She can no longer tolerate the position that she's in...
她再也受不了自己的处境了。
She tolerated the chemotherapy well.
她对这次化疗的耐受力很强。
The ability to tolerate pain varies from person to person.
对疼痛的忍受力因人而异。
Surely, we tolerate all opinions here.
当然，我们这里容许发表各种意见。
Humanity cannot tolerate such guilt.
人道主义不能容忍这种罪行。
This is more than she can tolerate.
这是她所无法忍受的。
Our host was arrogant and offensive. How his sweet wife could tolerate such a horror was baffling.
招待我们的男主人傲慢无礼。真不知道他温柔的妻子怎么能容忍这样一个讨厌的家伙。
She disliked Dido but was prepared to tolerate her for a weekend in order to humour her husband.
她不喜欢迪多，但准备暂时忍受她一个周末，以迁就自己的丈夫。
Their relationship was tolerated but not encouraged.
他们的关系得到了允许，但不宜鼓励。
Deviation from the norm is not tolerated.
不能容忍离经叛道行为。
Political dissent would no longer be tolerated
政见不和将不再被容忍。
The cousins tolerated each other, but did not really get on well together.
这对表亲互相容忍，但是相处得并不真正融洽。
They had put up with behaviour from their son which they would not have tolerated from anyone else.
他们容忍了儿子的行为，如果换作别人他们可做不到。