restless是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 焦躁不安的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had long, quivering fingers as agile and restless as the antennae of an insect.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lady has a restless imag-ination, he-he!She has a liking for conversation on serious subjects, of any kind; in fact they please her so much, that it flatters her to discuss them.
-- Thus, we know for a fact that during the whole of this fortnight the prince spent all his days and evenings with Nastasia; he walked with her, drove with her; he began to be restless whenever he passed an hour without seeing her in fact, to all ap-pearances, he sincerely loved her.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'm restless to-night," he said to himself.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said, and his bright, restless eyes travelled over me, to my hands, to the stick I carried, to my feet, to the tattered places in my coat, and the cuts and scratches I had received from the thorns.
-- He obtained the weapon, and put it ready to my hand on the table; then went out, leaving a restless contagion in the air.
-- They say that terror is a disease, and any-how I can witness that for several years now a restless fear has dwelt in my mind, such a restless fear as a half-tamed lion cub may feel.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.
-- Poor Meg had a restless night, and got up heavy-eyed, un-happy, half resentful toward her friends, and half ashamed of herself for not speaking out frankly and setting every-thing right.
-- A shadow passed over the boy's face as he watched them, feeling that he ought to go away because uninvited, yet lingering because home seemed very lonely and this quiet party in the woods most attractive to his restless spirit.
-- Laurie haunted the house like a restless ghost, and Mr. Laurence locke the grand piano, because he could not bear to be reminded of the young neighbor who used to make the twilight pleasant for him.
-- I feel restless and anxious to be seeing, do-ing, and learning more than I am.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restless needle sojourning in the body of a man, travelled full forty feet, and at last was found imbedded in the hump.
-- The lamp alarms and frightens Jonah; as lying in his berth his tormented eyes roll round the place, and this thus far successful fugitive finds no refuge for his restless glance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Jew glanced round the room, as his companion tossed down the second glassful; not in curiousity, for he had seen it often before; but in a restless and suspicious manner habitual to him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wholly inattentive to her sister's feelings, Lydia flew about the house in restless ecstasy, calling for everyone's congratulations, and laugh-ing and talking with more violence than ever; whilst the luckless Kitty continued in the parlour repined at her fate in terms as unreasonable as her accent was peevish.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When does she try to avoid society, or appear restless and dissatisfied in it?"
-- Restless and dissatisfied every where, her sister could never obtain her opinion of any article of purchase, however it might equally concern them both: she received no pleasure from anything; was only impatient to be at home again, and could with difficulty govern her vexation at the tediousness of Mrs. Palmer, whose eye was caught by every thing pretty, expensive, or new; who was wild to buy all, could determine on none, and dawdled away her time in rapture and indecision.
-- About the middle of the day, Mrs. Jennings went out by herself on business, and Elinor began her letter directly, while Marianne, too restless for employment, too anxious for conversation, walked from one window to the other, or sat down by the fire in melancholy meditation.
-- In such circumstances, it was better for both that they should not be long together; and the restless state of Marianne's mind not only prevented her from remaining in the room a moment after she was dressed, but requiring at once solitude and continual change of place, made her wander about the house till breakfast time, avoiding the sight of every body.
-- Elinor advised her to lie down again, and for a moment she did so; but no attitude could give her ease; and in restless pain of mind and body she moved from one posture to another, till growing more and more hysterical, her sister could with difficulty keep her on the bed at all, and for some time was fearful of being constrained to call for assistance.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He grew restless as he ruminated, and then decided that perhaps it was nothing.
-- He began to grow restless and lit a cigar.
-- She became restless and dissatisfied, not exactly, as she thought, with Hurstwood, but with life.
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