Impatience
[ɪm'peɪʃns] or [ɪm'peʃəns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a dislike of anything that causes delay.
(noun.) a restless desire for change and excitement.
克林特手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid.
整理:卢修斯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Disquietude, restlessness, uneasiness.[2]. Vehemence, impetuosity, haste, eagerness, precipitation.
錄入:保拉
例句/造句/用法:
- My impatience to reach the church was so great that I could not remain inactive in the cottage while the clerk lit the lantern again. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- If she had had any doubt which was her own Jeremiah, it would have been resolved by his impatience. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- To put it bluntly, Miss Addams let her impatience get the better of her wisdom. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- We were in a fever of impatience; we were dying to see the renowned cathedral! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Your words are bitter, Rebecca, said Bois-Guilbert, pacing the apartment with impatience, but I came not hither to bandy reproaches with you. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- In remarking that your friend has shown impatience, I say no such thing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Yes, ma'am,' said Bob, all impatience; for the old lady, although much agitated, spoke with the most tantalising deliberation, as old ladies often do. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- We first look with impatience upon immaturity, regarding it as something to be got over as rapidly as possible. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- You know what I mean, and you trifle with my impatience. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Regarded from this point of view Mr Pancks's puffings expressed injury and impatience, and each of his louder snorts became a demand for payment. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Practically I find that what is called being apostolic now, is an impatience of everything in which the parson doesn't cut the principal figure. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Holmes gave an exclamation of impatience. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Mrs. Gradgrind,' said her husband, who had waited for the achievement of this feat with some impatience, 'allow me to present to you Mrs. Bounderby. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I was badly in need of a case, and this looks, from the man's impatience, as if it were of importance. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- That kind master, who could not sleep now, was waiting with impatience for day. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
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