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

• Reports say army units exchanged fire after one refused to shoot at protesters in restive city of Deraa.
  报道说在德拉，一支叙利亚军队拒绝服从命令向抗议者开枪，之后两支军队发生交火。
• The audience was becoming restive as they waited for the performance to begin.
  观众们在等待演出开始的时候，变得不耐烦了。
• Now Aleppo seems increasingly restive.
  现在，阿勒颇似乎越来越躁动不安。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It is restive, confused, gently millenarian.
  这是一种焦躁、懵懂又温和的“千禧年”状态[8]。
• The prime minister's second achievement has been to tackle spain's restive regions.
  他的第二个成就是成功解决了西班牙的动乱地区问题。
• 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。