impatient是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 不耐烦的， 急躁的，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had not in-tended to go over till the summer, but she is so impatient to see them again for till she married, last October, she was never away from them so much as a week, which must make it very strange to be in different kingdoms, I was going to say, but however different countries, and so she wrote a very urgent letter to her mother or her father, I declare I do not know which it was, but we shall see presently in Jane's letter wrote in Mr. Dixon's name as well as her own, to press their coming over directly, and they would give them the meeting in Dublin, and take them back to their country seat, Baly-craig, a beautiful place, I fancy.
-- She had great pleasure in hearing Frank Churchill talked of; and, for his sake, greater pleasure than ever in seeing Mr. and Mrs. Weston; she was very often thinking of him, and quite impatient for a letter, that she might know how he was, how were his spirits, how was his aunt, and what was the chance of his coming to Randalls again this spring.
-- 'My friend Knightley' had been so often mentioned, that I was really impatient to see him; and I must do my caro sposo the justice to say that he need not be ashamed of his friend.
-- Well, what do you say to it? I always told you he would be here again soon, did not I? Anne, my dear, did not I always tell you so, and you would not believe me? In town next week, you see at the latest, I dare say; for she is as impatient as the black gentleman when any thing is to be done; most likely they will be there to-morrow or Saturday.
-- In Frank's last letter she complained, he said, of being too weak to get into her con-servatory without having both his arm and his uncle's!This, you know, speaks a great degree of weakness but now she is so impatient to be in town, that she means to sleep only two nights on the road. So Frank writes word.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be impossible to give an idea of the old, rotten, shaky, cranky, worm-eaten, halt, maimed, one-eyed, rickety, and ramshackle condition of the furniture without an exhaustive description, which would delay the progress of the story to an extent that impatient people would not pardon.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How would such a friend repair the faults of your poor brother!I am too ardent in execution and too impatient of difficulties.
-- But he is generally melancholy and despairing, and sometimes he gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him.
-- But I was impatient to arrive at the termination of my journey.
-- I checked, therefore, my impatient thirst for sympathy and was silent when I would have given the world to have confided the fa-tal secret.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked Camilla, joining the impatient chorus.
-- Ellenprotested but Charles pleaded with new-found eloquence, for he was impatient to be off to South Carolina to joinWade Hampton's Legion, and Gerald sided with the two young people.
-- Of a sudden, the oft-told family tales to which she had listened since babyhood, listened half-bored, impatient andbut partly comprehending, were crystal clear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The last I saw of him, his head was bent over his knee and he was working hard at his fetter, muttering impatient imprecations at it and at his leg.
-- with an impatient movement of the fingers of her right hand; "play, play, play!"
-- I was beginning to remind her that to-day was Wednesday, when she checked me with her former impatient movement of the fingers of her right hand.
-- with the impatient movement of her fingers.
-- Still, we went at an impatient fitful speed, and as we went, she twitched the hand upon my shoulder, and worked her mouth, and led me to believe that we were going fast because her thoughts went fast.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After about two hours the court retired, and I was left with a strong guard, to prevent the impertinence, and probably the malice of the rabble, who were very impatient to crowd about me as near as they durst; and some of them had the impudence to shoot their arrows at me, as I sat on the ground by the door of my house, whereof one very narrowly missed my left eye.
-- These considerations moved me to hasten my depar-ture somewhat sooner than I intended; to which the court, impatient to have me gone, very readily contributed.
-- For if,' said he, 'you throw among five Yahoos as much food as would be sufficient for fifty, they will, instead of eating peaceably, fall together by the ears, each single one impatient to have all to itself; and therefore a servant was usually employed to stand by while they were feeding abroad, and those kept at home were tied at a distance from each other: that if a cow died of age or accident, before a Houyhnhnm could secure it for his own Yahoos, those in the neighbourhood would come in herds to seize it, and then would ensue such a battle as I had de-scribed, with terrible wounds made by their claws on both sides, although they seldom were able to kill one another, for want of such convenient instruments of death as we had invented.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Tom, with an impatient whistle.
-- After an impatient oath or two, and some stupid clawing of herself with the hand not necessary to her support, she got her hair away from her eyes sufficiently to obtain a sight of him.
-- And the honourable member had so tickled the House (which has a delicate sense of humour) by putting the cap on the cow, that it became impatient of any serious reference to the Coroner's Inquest, and brought the railway off with Cheers and Laughter.
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