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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tom was remarkably impatient of his moving towards the cupboard, to get one.
-- Mr. Bounderby, with his hands in his pockets, walked in impatient mortification up and down at the side of the long dining-table, while the spectators greedily took in every syllable of Mrs. Pegler's appeal, and at each succeeding syllable became more and more round-eyed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "At all events, there will be no very considerable delay," cried the impatient Professor.
-- Nevertheless, we were drawn forward by an all-absorbing and impatient curiosity.
-- My exalted imagination pictured to itself the vast snowy plains of the arctic regions, and I was impatient to roll myself on the icy carpet of the North Pole.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the stillness, and the time-less sort of patience, in a man impatient and passionate, that touched Connie's womb.
-- I'm not really the right person for you, I am too impatient and selfish, I sup-pose.
-- She was a little impatient of Sir Clifford.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He jerked his great cloak more heavily upon him by an impatient movement of one shoulder, and growled, 'To the devil with this Brigand of a Sun that never shines in here!'
-- The other bird remained as before, except for an impatient glance at the basket.
-- Still, in his captivity, like a lower animal like some impatient ape, or roused bear of the smaller species the prisoner, now left solitary, had jumped upon the ledge, to lose no glimpse of this departure.
-- He made a pretence of having mislaid his walking-stick, to give her time to set the bedstead right, to answer her sister's impatient knock at the wall, and to say a word softly to her uncle.
-- An impatient glance from Tattycoram seemed, as Clennam saw it, to answer 'With my eyes!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amy heard the clash of skates, and looked out with an impatient exclamation.
-- Frank, sitting just behind the little girls, heard what they were saying, and pushed his crutch away from him with an impatient gesture as he watched the active lads going through all sorts of comical gymnastics.
-- muttered Laurie with an impatient sigh.
-- and pity from your heart those who have no such guardians to hedge them round with principles which may seem like prison walls to impatient youth, but which will prove sure foundations to build char-acter upon in womanhood.
-- And he shook off his grandfa-ther's hands with an impatient motion, for though grateful for the sympathy, his man's pride could not bear a man's pity.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some six handfuls were obtained; but more was unavoidably lost in the sea, and still more, perhaps, might have been secured were it not for impatient Ahab's loud command to Stubb to desist, and come on board, else the ship would bid them good bye.
-- In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad.
-- The season for the Line at length drew near; and every day when Ahab, coming from his cabin, cast his eyes aloft, the vigilant helmsman would ostentatiously handle his spokes, and the eager mariners quickly run to the braces, and would stand there with all their eyes centrally fixed on the nailed doubloon; impatient for the order to point the ship's prow for the equator.
-- The lost life-buoy was now to be replaced; Starbuck was directed to see to it; but as no cask of sufficient lightness could be found, and as in the feverish eagerness of what seemed the approaching crisis of the voyage, all hands were impatient of any toil but what was directly connected with its final end, whatever that might prove to be; therefore, they were going to leave the ship's stern unprovided with a buoy, when by certain strange signs and inuendoes Queequeg hinted a hint concerning his coffin.
-- Clinging to a spar with one hand, some reached forth the other with impatient wavings; others, shading their eyes from the vivid sunlight, sat far out on the rocking yards; all the spars in full bearing of mortals, ready and ripe for their fate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver's sobs checked his utterance for some minutes; when he was on the point of beginning to relate how he had been brought up at the farm, and carried to the workhouse by Mr. Bumble, a peculiarly impatient little double-knock was heard at the street-door: and the servant, running upstairs, announced Mr. Grimwig.
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