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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Major advised his impatient relative to restrain himself to circumstances.
-- For half an hour he followed his impatient friend, mechanically letting his head frequently drop on his chest, and raising it again with a start.
-- "And I might go farther, McNabbs," replied the geographer, impatient of contradiction.
-- "Just wait, impatient Major," was his rejoinder.
-- This might end in a delay of many days, and Glenarvan, impatient to succeed, could brook no delay, in his eagerness to attain his object.
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:
-- Sherlock Holmes struck his hand against his knee with an impatient gesture.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Never mind the year,' said the impatient auditor; 'what about her?'
-- inquired Oliver; impatient to execute his commission, and holding out his trembling hand for the letter.
-- was the impatient reply; 'Mother, I have considered, years and years.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After a song or two, and before she could reply to the entreaties of several that she would sing again, she was ea-gerly succeeded at the instrument by her sister Mary, who having, in consequence of being the only plain one in the family, worked hard for knowledge and accomplishments, was always impatient for display.
-- In Meryton they parted; the two youngest repaired to the lodgings of one of the officers' wives, and Elizabeth con-tinued her walk alone, crossing field after field at a quick pace, jumping over stiles and springing over puddles with impatient activity, and finding herself at last within view of the house, with weary ankles, dirty stockings, and a face glowing with the warmth of exercise.
-- Her answer, therefore, was not propitious, at least not to Elizabeth's wishes, for she was impatient to get home.
-- Mrs. Hurst and her sister scarcely opened their mouths, except to complain of fatigue, and were evidently impatient to have the house to themselves.
-- Darcy is impatient to see his sister; and, to confess the truth, WE are scarcely less eager to meet her again.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I made a collar for this little creature, and with a string, which I made of some rope-yam, which I always carried about me, I led him along, though with some difficulty, till I came to my bower, and there I enclosed him and left him, for I was very impatient to be at home, from whence I had been absent above a month.
-- I continued in this posture about two hours, and began to be impatient for intelligence abroad, for I had no spies to send out.
-- Pray note, all this was the fruit of a disturbed mind, an impatient temper, made desper-ate, as it were, by the long continuance of my troubles, and the disappointments I had met in the wreck I had been on board of, and where I had been so near obtaining what I so earnestly longed for - somebody to speak to, and to learn some knowledge from them of the place where I was, and of the probable means of my deliverance.
-- We waited a great while, though very impatient for their removing; and were very uneasy when, after long consultation, we saw them all start up and march down towards the sea; it seems they had such dreadful ap-prehensions of the danger of the place that they resolved to go on board the ship again, give their companions over for lost, and so go on with their intended voyage with the ship.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- CHAPTER 3Mrs. Dashwood remained at Norland several months; not from any disinclination to move when the sight of every well known spot ceased to raise the violent emotion which it produced for a while; for when her spirits began to revive, and her mind became capable of some other exertion than that of heightening its affliction by melancholy remembrances, she was impatient to be gone, and indefatigable in her inquiries for a suitable dwelling in the neighbourhood of Norland; for to remove far from that beloved spot was impossible.
-- 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.
-- Impatient in this situation to be doing something that might lead to her sister's relief, Elinor resolved to write the next morning to her mother, and hoped by awakening her fears for the health of Marianne, to procure those inquiries which had been so long delayed; and she was still more eagerly bent on this measure by perceiving after breakfast on the morrow, that Marianne was again writing to Willoughby, for she could not suppose it to be to any other person.
-- But this, from the momentary perverseness of impatient suffering, she at first refused to do.
-- "Well, sir," said Elinor, who, though pitying him, grew impatient for his departure, "and this is all?"
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I asked her to let me think a minute; and she set there, very impatient and ex- cited and handsome, but looking kind of happy and eased-up, like a person that's had a tooth pulled out.
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