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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he gave a deep groan and with an impatient gesture he put out the light.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One was that Nastasia had entered into close and secret relations with the Epanchin girls a most unlikely rumour; another was that Nastasia had long satisfied herself of the fact that Gania was merely marrying her for money, and that his nature was gloomy and greedy, impatient and self-ish, to an extraordinary degree; and that although he had been keen enough in his desire to achieve a conquest before, yet since the two friends had agreed to exploit his passion for their own purposes, it was clear enough that he had begun to consider the whole thing a nuisance and a nightmare.
-- 'There, you see, girls,' said the impatient lady, 'he has be-gun, you see.'
-- He had taken the chair next to the girl, and was impatient to begin talking.
-- If he had anticipated impatient questions, or im-pulsive confidences, he was soon undeceived.
-- She seemed to be impatient to warn the prince about something or other.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This pain ' I gave an impatient shrug at such sophistry.
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：
-- Yielding to his powerful interest in the subject, and impatient of a delay that seemed fraught with so much additional danger, Heyward drew still nigher to the dusky group, with an intention of making his offers of compensa-tion more definite, when the white man, motioning with his hand, as if he conceded the disputed point, turned away, saying in a sort of soliloquy, and in the English tongue: 'Uncas is right!it would not be the act of men to leave such harmless things to their fate, even though it breaks up the harboring place forever.
-- Heyward could distinguish the impatient gesture of the scout, through the increasing shadows of the evening, and he moved in his footsteps, swiftly, toward the place where he had left the remainder of the party.
-- To Hey-ward this was a moment of feverish and impatient suspense; though the scout saw fit to select it as a fit occasion to read a lecture to his more youthful associates on the art of using firearms with discretion.
-- 'Is not the air yet filled with shrieks and cries, as though the departed spirits of the damned ' 'Not now, not now,' interrupted the impatient Heyward, 'they have ceased, and they who raised them, I trust in God, they are gone, too!everything but the water is still and at peace; in, then, where you may create those sounds you love so well to hear.'
-- But the cry of 'La Longue Carabine' was renewed the instant the impatient savages perceived that the short dialogue was ended.
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：
-- The Frenchman considered the position, then broke suddenly into jovial expletives, and with an impatient gesture, gathering up the pieces, flung them into their box.
-- I was a little impatient with her; I had not suspected that she was so neurotic a woman.
-- I was sorry if I had seemed impatient or flippant.
-- I think I should have shown a strong vocation in boyhood, crushed by the will of his father or sacrificed to the necessity of earning a living; I should have pictured him impatient of the restraints of life; and in the struggle between his passion for art and the duties of his station I could have aroused sympathy for him.
-- He had a great but somewhat impatient admiration for Velasquez.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked the sailor, impatient to enter the narrow passage.
-- But it must be said, that the one who was most impatient of this imprisonment, after Pencroft perhaps, was Top.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He might not have done so even then, but for certain impatient tapping at the door he seemed to denote that some pretty hard knuckles were actively engaged upon the other side.
-- Coming slowly on through the forests of masts was a great steamship, beating the water in short impatient strokes with her heavy paddles as though she wanted room to breathe, and advancing in her huge bulk like a sea monster among the minnows of the Thames.
-- Young Trent with an impatient gesture pushed the glass towards him, and fell again in the moody attitude from which he had been unwillingly roused.
-- said the impatient single gentleman.
-- Kit would gladly have declined the proffered honour, but as Mr Swiveller was already established in the seat beside him, he had no means of doing so, otherwise than by a forcible ejectment, and therefore, drove briskly off so briskly indeed, as to cut short the leave-taking between Mr Chuckster and his Grand Master, and to occasion the former gentleman some inconvenience from having his corns squeezed by the impatient pony.
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