英:[ɪm'peɪʃntlɪ]
美:[ɪmˈpeʃəntlɪ]
英:[ɪm'peɪʃntlɪ]
美:[ɪmˈpeʃəntlɪ]
adv.
不耐烦地
性急地
焦急地
焦躁地
im·pa·tient·ly
ihm peI shnt li
adjective
not patient : restless or short of temper especially under irritation, delay, or opposition
intolerant sense 1
impatient of delay
prompted or marked by impatience
an impatient reply
eagerly desirous : anxious
impatient to get home
Middle English impacient, from Anglo-French impacient, from Latin impatient-, impatiens, from in- + patient-, patiens patient
The first known use of impatient was in the 14th century
impecuniousadjective
having little or no money
impeccableadjective
free from fault or blame
impeccableadjective
free from fault or blame
impeachverb
to charge a public official formally with misconduct in office
to cast doubt on
impeached the witness's testimony
impeachverb
to charge a public official formally with misconduct in office
to cast doubt on
impeached the witness's testimony
impeachverb
to charge a public official formally with misconduct in office
to cast doubt on
impeached the witness's testimony
impatientadjective
not patient
an impatient disposition
showing or coming from impatience
an impatient answer
restless and eager
impatient to get going
1 He followed the sea breeze around to the back of the house, and there, away from the light thrown out the study windows, stood Lizzie, one hand on her hip, her foot tapping impatiently.
2 Brer tapped his foot impatiently, until finally he flapped his paws and cut me off.
3 “Has it still not occurred to you?” he asked impatiently.
4 I’d already told this to P-49.1 repeated it to him again, impatiently, adding that there was nothing more I could do for him.
5 As the crowd streamed past, Ranofer tried impatiently to free his arm, but the donkey’s owner held it fast.
6 As she passed the kitchen Coraline could hear, in the sudden silence, the drip-drip of the water from the leaking tap or perhaps the other mother’s long fingernails tapping impatiently against the table.
7 Once inside the house, she waited impatiently for the others.
8 Customers have grown impatient with the repeated delays.
9 He impatiently jerked his coat off.
他不耐烦地猝然甩掉外衣。
10 After hours of waiting impatiently, we heard the clunking of an engine down the road.
11 “It was for counterrevolutionary activity,” he snapped impatiently; I learned afterwards that my answer had not been satisfactory, had not been couched in the acceptable phrases of bitter, anti- Trotsky denunciation.
12 There were so many cars on the street, and they impatiently honked, even when the light was red.
13 “It wears off after a while,” said Hermione, waving her hand impatiently.
14 Little Harm gestures impatiently at Starry to move so he can take her place.
15 “So,” said Fred impatiently, “it vanished, didn’t it? By next morning, it had gone!”
16 “Five! Six! Seven! Eight!” counted the officer impatiently.
17 Part of me was on the way to the village, the other impatiently waited on the hill.
18 “Well, come here, then,” the Old Man said impatiently, and he tapped his stick on the ground again.
19 If I asked her why she was crying, she would impatiently say it was onion that made her cry, even if she had no onions near her.
20 While the furrier thumbed through them, Sefia fidgeted impatiently, glancing around at the swirling crowd, reaching behind her every so often to reassure herself that the mysterious angular object remained inside her pack.