0 the feeling of being annoyed by someone's mistakes or because you have to wait -- 不耐煩，無耐心
"I've shown you how to do this before," she said, unable to disguise her impatience. 「唉，我已經教過你怎麼做的，」她說道，掩飾不了自己的不耐煩。
There's a growing impatience among the electorate with the old two-party system. 選民對舊有的兩黨制日漸失去耐心。
[ + to infinitive ] He was already half an hour late, which explains his impatience to leave. 他已經遲了半小時，所以他急著要離開。
All have their separate impatiences.
Subsequent outbursts of impatience and despair need to be considered alongside more hopeful and sympathetic remarks.
Such ' obstinacy ', when it appeared as scholastic hair-splitting without practical value, could elicit impatience rather than admiration.
Two common modes in which customers display their impatience are balking and reneging.
He was perfectly capable of expressing impatience at overly fastidious definition, in the face of blunt social reality.
In addition, we make the assumption of a positive marginal impatience: the discount rate increases with the level of the environmental quality.
More likely, however, she will respond to it with a certain measure of impatience.
The income-impatience effect described earlier is in fact the key to the dramatic variation in the model's quantitative properties as increases.
