Something hard is pressing on you — a noise, an opinion you dislike, dry ground, salt wind. You neither break under it nor push it away. You carry it, and you carry on.
tolerant 可以想成「扛得住，所以不必出手」。有一個不舒服的東西壓過來：可能是吵鬧的音樂、看不順眼的做法，也可能是乾掉的土或海邊的鹹風。被形容為 tolerant 的那一方既沒有垮掉，也沒有把它推開，就這樣撐著繼續過。整個字的重量都在「撐住」這個動作上，而不在「喜歡」。
From the word’s history
The source traces tolerant to Latin tolerō, "to endure", by way of French tolérant. Enduring — carrying a weight without putting it down — is exactly what links the person who does not complain and the plant that does not die.
來源資料說這個字來自法文 tolérant，再往上是拉丁文 tolerō「忍受、承受」。「承受」正好把兩邊接起來：不出聲抱怨的人，和不會枯死的植物，做的是同一件事——把壓力扛著。
Wiktionary entry for tolerant, packet evidence kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:896194637 — "Either borrowed from French tolérant or directly from its source Latin tolerans… from tolerō (to endure)."
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