restive

['restiv]

adj.不愿向前走的,倔强的, 难驾驭的, 不耐烦的

例句与用法：

Another hour passed and the crowd grew/became restive.

又过了一个小时，人们有些不耐烦了。

词形变化：

副词: restively | 名词: restiveness |

a.

1. 倔强的; 不听话的; (马)不肯向前走的

2. 喧闹的; 焦躁的

restive

词形变化：

副词: restively | 名词: restiveness |

词义辨析：

同义参见:

agitated

defiant

restive['restiv]adj.1.■烦躁的；不耐烦的；动乱不安的2.■倔强的；难驾驭的；难控制的3.■(马等)不肯前进的，逡巡不前的近义词contrary

1. (of a person) unable to keep still or silent and becoming increasingly difficult to control, especially because of impatience, dissatisfaction, or boredom
   焦躁不安的；躁动的；不耐烦的
   ■(of a horse) refusing to advance, stubbornly standing still or moving backwards or sideways
   （马）倔头倔脑不肯往前的，停下闹别扭的
   

1. late 16th cent.: from Old French restif, -ive, from Latin restare 'remain'. The original sense, 'inclined to remain still, inert', has undergone a reversal; the association with the refractory movements of a horse gave rise to the current sense 'fidgety, restless'
   

restive

形容词 restive:

being in a tense state

同义词：edgy, high-strung, highly strung, in suspense, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, uptight

impatient especially under restriction or delay

restive

■Farmers plant rice on a farm near the restive Mayon volcano in Guinobatan township, Albay province, 500 kilometers southeast of Manila, Philippines, Sunday, Dec. 20.

AP / Bullit Marquez 农民在靠近动荡的马荣在吉诺巴坦镇，阿尔拜省，500公里，马尼拉，菲律宾，星期日，12月20日。

■The YAHOOS were the most filthy, noisome, and deformed animals which nature ever produced, so they were the most restive and indocible, mischievous and malicious;

“雅虎”是大自然所生的一种最肮脏、最有害、最丑恶的动物，因此它们最为倔强而又不可驯服，恶毒而又惹事生非；

■A mother labourer from Myanmar who work unloading packed fish from fishing boats is seen with her child in Thailand's restive southern province of Ranong, on January 31, 2009.

一位母亲从缅甸谁劳动者工作卸货便携鱼渔船是看到她的孩子在泰国南部拉廊省，在2009年1月31日。

■a restive horse

一匹难驾驭的马

■The high-mettled animal that is restive in the yoke only galls his shoulders;

不安于轭的驴，只是使自己的肩膀多吃苦头；

■restive province

不安定省份

■the restless sea.See Usage Note at restive

不平静的大海参见

■In the Heartland A Stavropol woman watches Putin campaign for his United Russia party in November. Under his leadership, the Kremlin has expanded its influence over the restive provinces.

中部地区一个斯塔罗波的妇女正在观看普京呼吁民众支持同意俄罗斯党的电视节目。在普京的领导下,克里姆林宫的影响在一度倔傲不驯的地区重新得以恢复。

■For all of China's wealth, the party is desperate to appease the restive rural masses.

为了中国整体富裕，党不顾一切安抚焦躁的农村群体。

■Five Iraqis, including a policeman, lost their lives in the attack which targeted a Provincial Joint Coordination Centre in this restive Sunni town.

五个伊拉克人包括一名警察在这次袭击中失去生命。

■They tend to see the Dalai Lama and Miss Suu Kyi respectively as the embodiment of their problems with restive populations.

他们总是把达#赖#喇#嘛和昂山素季看作是暴民的首领。

■He is as restive as a donkey.

他像驴子一样倔强的。

■He was restive all through it;

他在祈祷过程中，一直不安分。

■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。

■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，有不羁的创作感。

■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。

■Iraqi authorities have imposed a ban on vehicle traffic in Baghdad and restive areas to the north - apparently to prevent reprisal insurgent attacks.

伊拉克当局在巴格达和巴格达北部不安定地区禁止车辆通行，显然是为了防范反叛分子的报复性攻击。

■As it was, I at length grew restive in the extreme under his distasteful supervision.

但事实上，他那样讨厌地监督我，我终于变得倔到了家。

■But local residents in Pakistan's restive northwest tribal region blamed the military, saying assailants fired missiles into the house.

但是，动荡的巴基斯坦西北部落地区的居民指责政府军，说攻击者向房子里发射火箭。

■Its erstwhile friend China, struggling to keep a grip on its restive regions, has expressed “concern”.

俄罗斯从前的友邦中国由于正努力控制自身的不稳定地区，仅仅表达了“关注”。

■a restive person

倔强的人

■The atmosphere in the office was congenial,but after five years she began to grow restless(not restive.

办公室的气氛是令人愉快的，但五年后她开始变得不安起来(不能用

■The atmosphere in the office was congenial, but after five years she began to grow restless (not restive ).

办公室的气氛是令人愉快的，但五年后她开始变得不安起来（不能用restive)

■A concerted campaign by Beijing to assert control over a restive region that for centuries was dominated by the Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gurs), Turkic-speaking Muslims who migrated from Mongolia.

北京在开展协调一致的行动，维护对这块不受管束的地区的控制。这里几百年来一直由维吾尔人占据，他们是由蒙古迁徙而来的，说突厥语的穆斯林。

■Beijing hopes that better protection for workers through the union and the new labor law will placate its increasingly restive manufacturing workforce.

北京期望通过总工会对工人提供的更好保护，以及新的劳动法规，来安抚日益不稳定的制造业劳动力。

■Another hour passed and the crowd grew/became restive .

又过了一个小时,人们有些不耐烦了.

■Another hour passed and the crowd grew/became restive.

又过了一个小时，人们有些不耐烦了。

■As Jake's wound sets him apart from those whose restive lives he must report, it compels him to establish some distance from himself as well.

吉克的受伤使得他与那些人分开，而他又必须报导这些人焦躁的生活，这迫使他与自己也产生了距离。

■The main militant group in Nigeria's restive, oil-rich south said dozens of its heavily armed forces raided a prison Sunday and freed one of their leaders.

在奈及利亚喧闹、盛产石油南部主要的激进团体表示，它的几十个武装部队在星期日侵袭一座监狱，并且解放了他们的一位领导者。

■She will meet with President Joseph Kabila in restive North Kivu province.

她还将在动荡不安的北基伍省会见总统约瑟夫.卡比拉。

■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。

■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。

■Mayon has been quiet for three days but the institute said that the gas emissions and dozens of tremors recorded by instruments suggested that the volcano was still “in a restive state.

官方声称，目前由于火山爆发出逃人中，已有3000人回到了自己的家乡，但他们所在的村庄都不在危险区（火山口周围4英里）内。

■The strategy of using trains and commerce in restive ethnic regions is not new for China.

实施火车战略和在多事的民族地区进行贸易在中国不是一件新鲜事。

■For those who considered France too restive, conservative or skittish for change, Mr Sarkozy's victory suggests otherwise.

对于那些认为法国太难驾御，太守旧，太易受变革刺激的人来说，萨尔科齐先生的胜利有着别样的启示。

■Since the beginning of 2006, attacks by militants in the restive region have cut by 25 percent oil production in Nigeria, the eighth largest world crude exporter.

尼日利亚是世界第8大原油出口国。2006年年初以来，激进分子在动荡的尼日尔三角洲发动的袭击已经使尼日利亚石油减产25%。

■in a restive mood

情绪烦躁不安

■Thousands of Russians are staging a somber demonstration in the nation's capital, protesting and mourning the victims of the school siege in the country's restive Caucasus region.

成千上百的俄罗斯人在首都举行沉痛的哀悼活动,以抗议并悼念高加索地区难以控制的学校围攻事件.

■The government has done nothing to ease export restrictions,and domestic manufacturers are growing restive(not restless.

政府未采取任何措施放松出口限制，因此国内制造商变得焦虑不安(不能用。

■the government has done nothing to ease restrictions and manufacturers are growing restive.

政府未采取任何措施放松出口限制，因此国内制造商变得焦虑不安。

■In Somalia's restive capital Mogadishu Friday, a group of young Somali men ignored the civil war raging around them for a few minutes to listen to their favorite Jackson song.

星期五在索马里纷乱喧闹的首都摩加迪沙，一群年轻的索马里男子不顾他们周围正在进行的内战，用了好几分钟来听他们最喜爱的杰克逊歌曲。

■Prime Minister Tony Blair began his last trip here as British leader Wednesday, armed with a parting shot to global opinion that US isolation would make a restive world far more dangerous.

本周三，布莱尔最后一次以首相身份开始他的访美之行，他希望通过此行向国际舆论表明，美国失去盟友后，如今不安宁的世界将会变得更加危险。

■Jefferson kept his seat，reined in his restive steed，and putan equally effective rein upon his own temper.

杰斐逊依然坐在马鞍上，用缰绳控制着烦躁的马，并同样有效地控制了自己的脾气。

■When the singer was late, the audience grew restive.

歌手迟迟不出场,听众变得不耐烦了。

■restive; restless; fidgety

烦躁

■But Mr Obama still faces huge obstacles, not least from a restive Congress, where fiscally conservative Democrats might put up resistance.

然而奥巴马面前依然障碍重重，困难不仅来自难驾驭的国会，其中一些保守的民主党议员可能会有所反抗。

■With the U's fans becoming restive, Oxford tried to force a late winner, forcing Lenny Pidgeley to punch clear, whilst Bradley tackled well to stop Odubade in his tracks.

牛津联队的球迷已经有些不耐烦了，球队试图在最后时刻上演绝杀，逼迫伦尼-皮德盖里站出来化解险情，布拉德利的铲球成功拦住了奥杜巴德。

■An Islamist guerrilla movement, Hizbullah, is a restive partner in the country's ruling coalition while it runs its own armed statelet near the border with Israel.

真主党在联合政府中频生事端，它在靠近黎以边境的地区有着自己的势力范围。

■The crowd grew restive.

群众逐渐喧闹起来。

■The East Germans, whose government had lobbied the Soviet Union to punish the restive Poles, did not.

而游说苏联，要求处罚倔强的波兰人的东德则没有改变。