| 词组 | impatient |
| 释义 | impatient When used with a preposition, impatient is most often followed by of: • His sisters ... were quite as impatient of his advice, quite as unyielding to his representation —Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814 • He was always impatient of delay —Edmund Wilson, A Piece of My Mind, 1956 Less frequently, impatient is used with for, to, or with, and occasionally with at: • ... a Cadillac cowboy impatient for his father's death —Current Biography, September 1964 • Winterbourne was impatient to see her again — Henry James, Daisy Miller, 1879 • ... had always been impatient with doctrines and systems —William H. Whyte, Jr., The Organization Man, 1956 • ... impatient at Benson's presence —George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, 1859 |
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