impatience是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 不耐烦，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The curiosity and impatience of my master were so great, that he spent many hours of his leisure to instruct me.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle was scarcely able to conceal his impatience and dissatisfaction at the road continuing still to advance in a horizontal direction.
-- Our impatience was so great that if we had once begun with pickax and crowbar, the rock would soon have split into a hundred fragments.
-- At this moment it reminded me of my uncle, his impatience and rage, while when it flowed more peacefully, I pictured to myself the placidity of the Icelandic guide.
-- When at last, however, he discovered that my feverish impatience would do more harm than good--and that the satisfaction of my wishes could alone restore me to a calm state of mind--he gave way.
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：
-- Now quietly, subtly, she was unravel-ling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.
-- In savage impatience he moved little handles and got more noises out of her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He restrained her impatience with a smooth white hand.
-- 'Affery, my woman,' said he, sidling at her with his fists clenched, and his elbows quivering with impatience to shake her, 'you are at your old tricks.
-- 'With the greatest impatience I should fly to your house, but that I foresee it to be possible, under the circumstances, that you will not yet have quite definitively arranged the little proposition I have had the honour to submit to you.
-- For a burning restlessness set in, an agonised impatience of the prison, and a conviction that he was going to break his heart and die there, which caused him indescribable suffering.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She dried her tears quickly, restrained her impatience to see her mother, and never even thought of the turquoise ring, when the old lady heartily agreed in Laurie's opinion, that she behaved 'like a capital little woman'.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I felt it; and it did not disincline me towards him; though I felt impatience at what seemed like mystery in him, so imperfectly as he was known to me then.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile Oliver was in such a desperate state of impatience and anxiety, that he felt as if he could have jumped upon the horse himself, and galloped away, full tear, to the next stage.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth's eyes were fixed on her with most painful sensations, and she watched her prog-ress through the several stanzas with an impatience which was very ill rewarded at their close; for Mary, on receiving, amongst the thanks of the table, the hint of a hope that she might be prevailed on to favour them again, after the pause of half a minute began another.
-- Her impatience for this second letter was as well reward-ed as impatience generally is.
-- She read with an ea-gerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.
-- Chapter 20 lizabeth's impatience to acquaint Jane with what had Ehappened could no longer be overcome; and at length, resolving to suppress every particular in which her sister was concerned, and preparing her to be surprised, she re-lated to her the next morning the chief of the scene between Mr. Darcy and herself.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Marianne's joy was almost a degree beyond happiness, so great was the perturbation of her spirits and her impatience to be gone.
-- She sat in an agony of impatience which affected every feature.
-- All her impatience to be at home again now returned; her mother was dearer to her than ever; dearer through the very excess of her mistaken confidence in Willoughby, and she was wildly urgent to be gone.
-- He dared not come to Bartlett's Buildings for fear of detection, and though their mutual impatience to meet, was not to be told, they could do nothing at present but write.
-- CHAPTER 39The Miss Dashwoods had now been rather more than two months in town, and Marianne's impatience to be gone increased every day.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The place swarmed with boys and girls of all ages and sizes, wriggling and dancing about in a fever of impatience to see the famous Donkey dance.
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