Impatience is the quality of being easily annoyed by delays or by other people's mistakes or slowness. It can also refer to a strong desire for something to happen.
Impatience is the quality of being easily annoyed by delays or by other people's mistakes or slowness. It can also refer to a strong desire for something to happen.
1annoyance at having to accept delays, other people’s weaknesses etcOPP 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.
WDF
impatience
[ɪm'peɪʃns]
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不耐烦(98%)，急迫(2%)
n.急躁；无耐心
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