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

• 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。
• In an attempt to stabilise cotton supplies and soothe restive farmers in Xinjiang, in 2011 China set a cotton price floor and started stockpiling the material.
  为稳定棉花供应及安抚新疆躁动不安的棉农，2011年中国设定了棉花价格下限并开始囤积棉花。
• 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。
• Some Pakistanis also say they suspect the Afghan government of meddling in Pakistan's restive Baluchistan province.
  一些巴基斯坦人怀疑阿富汗政府干预巴基斯坦形势不稳定的卑路支省。
• For this reason the restive youth of China and Oman are different from those of north   Africa.
  基于这个理由，中国及阿曼那些躁动不安的年轻人与北非的年轻人截然不同。
• When the singer was late, the audience grew restive.
  歌手迟迟不出场，听众变得不耐烦了。
• 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。
• Nor is there much of a sign restive workers are on the verge of demanding better hours or higher wages, unhappy as they may be about$ 4 gasoline.
  而且，也没有多少迹象显示，在汽油价格高达4美元/加仑之时，有不满足于现状的雇员很快会要求更高的时薪或工资。
• But while Moscow has long been able to buy stability in its restive outer regions, using windfall oil revenues, the strategy is being undermined by low oil prices, budget cuts, plunging economic growth and high unemployment.
  尽管莫斯科多年来能够用石油收入的横财在不太平的边远地区买到稳定，但这一战略正受到油价下跌、预算削减、经济减速和高失业率的侵蚀。
• If Kosovo remains unresolved and restive, the EU will not admit Serbia as a member.
  如果科索沃问题悬而未决且难以控制，欧盟不会承认塞尔维亚为一个成员国。