单词	impatience
释义	impatienceim‧pa‧tience /ɪmˈpeɪʃəns/ noun [uncountable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS After the patience of the last few years, he wrote, why this sudden impatience? All this is not to say that Basil was incapable of showing normal human impatience or intolerance. It is a tribute to our impatience and boredom that we are already asking this question three months premature. Only - wasn't there a hint of impatience inside his patterns too? Partnership continued to elude me, and it embarrassed and frustrated me, although objectively I knew my impatience was largely unwarranted. She could see shrugging impatience in his shoulders. Yet they paid for his impatience. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► show · All this is not to say that Basil was incapable of showing normal human impatience or intolerance.· They show the greatest impatience, and even disgust, when they hear a ranting resolution-maker berating slavery.· Once more the inhabitants of the northern forests showed their impatience of these delays.· He waited, showing neither anger nor impatience - nor any shadow of doubt.· He had never shown impatience or eagerness again. Word family WORD FAMILYnounpatience ≠ impatiencepatientadjectivepatient ≠ impatientadverbpatiently ≠ impatiently 1annoyance at having to accept delays, other people’s weaknesses etc OPP  patienceimpatience with his impatience with the slowness of bureaucratic procedures A note of impatience had entered his voice.2great eagerness for something to happen, especially something that is going to happen soonimpatience to do something She was bursting with impatience to tell Natalia what had happened.
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