restive

英 [ˈrestɪv]

美 [ˈrestɪv]

adj.  难驾驭的; 焦躁不安的; 不耐烦的

GRE

BNC.21619 / COCA.21413

牛津词典

adj.

• 难驾驭的；焦躁不安的；不耐烦的
  unable to stay still, or unwilling to be controlled, especially because you feel bored or not satisfied

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 不耐烦的;厌烦的;不满的
  If you arerestive, you are impatient, bored, or dissatisfied.
  1. The audience grew restive.
     观众变得不耐烦了。
  2. ...restive national minorities.
     心怀不满的少数民族

英英释义

adj

• impatient especially under restriction or delay
  1. the government has done nothing to ease restrictions and manufacturers are growing restive
• being in a tense state
  Synonym:edgyhigh-strunghighly strungjitteryjumpynervyoverstrunguptight

双语例句

• By the time they turned to history, Young Griff was growing restive.
  等到开始上历史，小格里夫变得不耐烦了。
• Syrian security forces intensified their assault on opposition areas in the restive central city of Homs yesterday, as the US closed its embassy in Damascus citing security reasons and Britain recalled its top envoy.
  叙利亚军警昨天对动荡的中部城市霍姆斯（Homs）的反对派占领区域加紧攻击。同时美国以安全为由关闭在大马士革的使馆，英国则召回驻叙利亚大使。
• Two Swedish journalists have told an Ethiopian court they were upholding the highest traditions of their profession when they were arrested in the company of rebels in the restive Ogaden region.
  两名瑞典记者在埃塞俄比亚法庭上说，当他们在奥加登地区和叛军一同被捕时，是在为他们职业的最高传统标准尽责。
• The audience grew restive.
  观众变得不耐烦了。
• Thanks in large part to its one-child policy, China certainly has a less restive population.
  中国人肯定没有那麽桀骜不驯，这在一定程度上归因于独生子女政策。
• The dogs were feeling restive because they sensed a storm was in the air.
  狗表现焦躁不安，因为它们感觉到暴风雨就要来临了。
• He was by nature powerful of thought and sensibility, and the creative spirit was restive and urgent.
  他天生思维犀利，感觉敏锐，创作感强烈得难以驾驭。
• It wants to find another country with which to share the burden of securing the restive province of Uruzgan.
  它希望找到另一个国家来分担稳定难以控制的乌鲁兹根省的负担。
• His face was quite stolid, But he looked at her with restive eyes.
  他脸上没有表情，眼睛却倔强地看着她。
• The sudden price boom provoked a worldwide food crisis that had governments scrambling to secure supplies often through a "starve-thy-neighbour" policy of encouraging imports to feed their restive populations while blocking their own farmers from selling abroad.
  突如其来的价格上涨，引发了一场全球性的粮食危机，各国政府争先恐后的确保粮食供应，它们往往采取一种“以邻为壑”的政策鼓励粮食进口以供养本国焦躁不安的人民，同时禁止本国农民出口粮食。