Impetuous
[ɪm'petjʊəs] or [ɪm'pɛtʃʊəs]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Rushing with force and violence; moving with impetus; furious; forcible; violent; as, an impetuous wind; an impetuous torrent.
(a.) Vehement in feeling; hasty; passionate; violent; as, a man of impetuous temper.
編輯:维姬
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Vehement, violent, furious, fierce, passionate, precipitate, hasty, hot, over-zealous.
整理:凯瑟琳
同義詞及反義詞：
[See HASTY]
編輯:丽诺尔
解釋/意思:
adj. rushing upon with impetus or violence: vehement in feeling: passionate.—adv. Impet′uously.—ns. Impet′uousness Impetuos′ity.
胡安娜校對
例句/造句/用法:
- When I calculated that this impetuous young woman would overdo it in new directions, was I wrong or right? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Our horses had become, through their long holiday, almost wild, and we crossed the plain round Calais with impetuous speed. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Rosamond had that victorious obstinacy which never wastes its energy in impetuous resistance. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The Major laughed at the impetuous affection Mrs. Amelia exhibited; for, in truth, it was not very often that she wanted her brother that instant. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Though portly, she was alert, and though serene, she was at times impetuous--good health and an excellent temperament kept her green as in her spring. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I dangers dared; I hindrance scorned; I omens did defy: Whatever menaced, harassed, warned, I passed impetuous by. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Imagination was roused from her rest, and she came forth impetuous and venturous. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous--but the honestest fellow. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The Persian wings gave before this impetuous attack, but the centre held. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Excuse me if I recommend you not to chafe so much, not to be so impetuous, not to wear yourself out so. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Of course, she was the first to speak--intelligibly, I mean, for the emotional remarks which followed her impetuous Oh, yes! 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Mr Dorrit was undeniably very polite to her and had a high opinion of her; but Fanny, impetuous at most times, might easily be wrong for all that. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I've come to buy you, and take you home, said George, with impetuous vehemence. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Glaucon is the impetuous youth who can 'just never have enough of fechting' (cp. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Her will daily bent itself to that of the impetuous little Jessy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- No said Mr. Casaubon, not keeping pace with Mr. Brooke's impetuous reason, and thinking of the book only. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I am inexperienced and impetuous, and I have been a little spoilt; but I really am not so bad as I dare say I appear, or as you think me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- When I did speak, it was only to express an impetuous wish that I had never been born, or never come to Thornfield. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He was then the most impetuous boy in the world, and he is now the most impetuous man. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
胡安娜校對