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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he reflected, blinked his eyes, stared at his guest once more from head to foot; then abruptly motioned him to a chair, sat down himself, and waited with some impatience for the prince to speak.
-- A certain strangeness and impatience in his manner im-pressed the prince very forcibly.
-- 'I have waited for you with the greatest impatience (not that you were worth it).
-- He was disturbed in his mind, it seemed; perspiration stood in large drops on his forehead; in his gleaming eyes it was easy to read impatience and agitation; his gaze wandered from face to face of those present, and from object to object in the room, apparently without aim.
-- Of course he could not fail to observe some impatience and ill-temper in Agla-ya now and then; but he believed in something else, and nothing could now shake his conviction.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As they went farther north they held a bowing council every few hours, and Kotick nearly bit off his mustache with impatience till he saw that they were following up a warm current of water, and then he respected them more.
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：
-- Each drew a chair, and while the veteran communed a few moments with his own thoughts, appar-ently in sadness, the youth suppressed his impatience in a look and attitude of respectful attention.
-- ' Julius Caesar he impatience of the savages who lingered about the Tprison of Uncas, as has been seen, had overcome their dread of the conjurer's breath.
-- The invitation was accepted; and the two warriors, attended by three or four of the old men, walked calmly away, leaving the rest of the tribe devoured by a desire to understand the reasons of so unusual a visit, and yet not betraying the least impatience by sign or word.
-- The delay had already continued long beyond the usual deliberative pause that always preceded a conference; but no sign of impatience or surprise escaped even the youngest boy.
-- At length, yielding rather to his unusual impatience than taking coun-sel from his knowledge, he determined to bring matters to an issue, by unmasking his force, and proceeding cautious-ly, but steadily, up the stream.
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：
-- Perhaps Charles Strickland's power and originality would scarcely have sufficed to turn the scale if the remarkable mythopoeic faculty of mankind had not brushed aside with impatience a story which disappointed all its craving for the extraordinary.
-- I tried to persuade myself than an obscure feeling of revolt had been gradually coming to a head in his slow mind, but to challenge this was the undoubted fact that he had never shown any impatience with the monotony of his life.
-- He remembered how often he had waited for a minute or two on the landing to get his breath after the ascent, and how absurdly his impatience to see Blanche had taken it away again.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The balloon, inflated on the great square of Richmond, was ready to depart on the first abatement of the wind, and, as may be supposed, the impatience among the besieged to see the storm moderate was very great.
-- He knew the engineer-officer by reputation; he knew with what impatience that determined man chafed under his restraint.
-- "Pencroft," said he, "can you restrain your impatience for one hour only?"
-- The engineer therefore manifested some impatience to reach the western coast of Lincoln Island, which was at least five miles distant according to his estimation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Saying this, he stepped to the door, and looking down the street beckoned several times to some unseen person, who, to judge from the air of impatience with which these signals were accompanied, required a great quantity of persuasion to induce him to advance.
-- Alick has been in such a state of impatience to come!You'd hardly believe that he was dressed before dinner-time and has been looking at the clock and teasing me ever since.
-- He seized it with the same rapid impatience which had characterised his speech, and hastily made his way to the other side of the screen.
-- The single gentleman has been described as explaining their joint intentions, but it should have been written that they all spoke together; that if any one of them by chance held his peace for a moment, he stood gasping and panting for an opportunity to strike in again: in a word, that they had reached that pitch of impatience and anxiety where men can neither be persuaded nor reasoned with; and that it would have been as easy to turn the most impetuous wind that ever blew, as to prevail on them to reconsider their determination.
-- But, had it been the beginning of some great labour with the same end in view had it been the commencement of a long journey, to be performed on foot in that inclement season of the year, to be pursued under very privation and difficulty, and to be achieved only with great distress, fatigue, and suffering had it been the dawn of some painful enterprise, certain to task his utmost powers of resolution and endurance, and to need his utmost fortitude, but only likely to end, if happily achieved, in good fortune and delight to Nell Kit's cheerful zeal would have been as highly roused: Kit's ardour and impatience would have been, at least, the same.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Impatience grew apace, when, on the 2nd of July, they learned that a steamer of the line of San Francisco, from California to Shanghai, had seen the animal three weeks before in the North Pacific Ocean.
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