long-suffering
adj patiently bearing problems, troubles, etc, esp those caused by another person 长期忍受的(对困难事、 麻烦事等, 尤指他人引起的)
I pity his ,long-suffering `wife. 我可怜他那长期受苦的妻子.
it requires 97 per cent less energy to travel the quarter of a million miles from the Moon to Earth-orbit than the 200 mile-journey from Earth's surface into orbit!