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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His eyes and the end of his restless nose were pink.
-- 'Tend to him if he grows restless in the night,' said Big Toomai to Little Toomai, and he went into the hut and slept.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While, in the pursuit of their daring plans of annoyance, the restless enterprise of the French even attempted the dis-tant and difficult gorges of the Alleghany, it may easily be imagined that their proverbial acuteness would not overlook the natural advantages of the district we have just described.
-- It was not long, however, before the restless savages were heard beating the brush, and gradually approaching the inner edge of that dense border of young chestnuts which encircled the little area.
-- Some were rushing ea-gerly to enjoy the aquatic games of the lake, and others were already toiling their way up the neighboring hills, with the restless curiosity of their nation.
-- Then even Duncan knew it, by its restless and sidling attitudes, which kept the upper part of its form in constant motion, while the animal itself appeared seated, to be a bear.
-- Looking around, he beheld the shaggy monster seated on end in a shadow of the cavern, where, while his restless body swung in the uneasy manner of the animal, it repeated, in a sort of low growl, sounds, if not words, which bore some slight re-semblance to the melody of the singer.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New York, that popula-tion, manners, and customs remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless coun-try, sweeps by them unobserved.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Looking back, I am vexed that I made such a fool of myself; I suppose the last restless nights had shaken my nerves more than I knew.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That constant pacing to and fro, that never-ending restlessness, that incessant tread of feet wearing the rough stones smooth and glossy is it not a wonder how the dwellers in narrows ways can bear to hear it!Think of a sick man in such a place as Saint Martin's Court, listening to the footsteps, and in the midst of pain and weariness obliged, despite himself (as though it were a task he must perform) to detect the child's step from the man's, the slipshod beggar from the booted exquisite, the lounging from the busy, the dull heel of the sauntering outcast from the quick tread of an expectant pleasure-seeker think of the hum and noise always being present to his sense, and of the stream of life that will not stop, pouring on, on, on, through all his restless dreams, as if he were condemned to lie, dead but conscious, in a noisy churchyard, and had no hope of rest for centuries to come.
-- These reflections naturally recalled again more strongly than before his haggard face, his wandering manner, his restless anxious looks.
-- It will be sufficient to say that the lesson was given that evening passed and night came on that the old man again grew restless and impatient that he quitted the house secretly at the same hour as before and that the child was once more left alone within its gloomy walls.
-- The water and all upon it was in active motion, dancing and buoyant and bubbling up; while the old grey Tower and piles of building on the shore, with many a church-spire shooting up between, looked coldly on, and seemed to disdain their chafing, restless neighbour.
-- To see the old man struck down beneath the pressure of some hidden grief, to mark his wavering and unsettled state, to be agitated at times with a dreadful fear that his mind was wandering, and to trace in his words and looks the dawning of despondent madness; to watch and wait and listen for confirmation of these things day after day, and to feel and know that, come what might, they were alone in the world with no one to help or advise or care about them these were causes of depression and anxiety that might have sat heavily on an older breast with many influences at work to cheer and gladden it, but how heavily on the mind of a young child to whom they were ever present, and who was constantly surrounded by all that could keep such thoughts in restless action!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He invited me to meet guests; there was no acquaintance," answered Maslova, throwing restless glances now at the prosecutor, now at the justiciary.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness.
-- But I was too restless to watch long; I am too Occidental for a long vigil.
-- I tried to get to sleep again, but I felt restless and uncomfortable.
-- And on both these days I had the restless feeling of one who shirks an inevitable duty.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He walked to and fro, sat down and got up again, took a chance book, put it down, consulted his instruments without taking his habitual notes, and seemed restless and uneasy.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She is a restless bird, she'll be gone in a week or two," said Birkin.
-- The night was silver-grey and perfect, save for the scattered restless sound of voices.
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