restless

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rest·less /ˈrestləs/ adjectiveadj

1 MOVE/CHANGE POSITIONunwilling to keep still or stay where you are, especially because you are nervous or bored 〔尤指因紧张或厌烦而〕不安宁的，烦躁的，不耐烦的 SYN fidgety

become/grow/get restless

The children had been indoors all day, and were getting restless.

孩子们在屋里待了一整天，开始不耐烦了。

2 unwilling to stay in one place, and always wanting new experiences 待不住的，求变的

After a few weeks in Marseille, I grew restless and decided to move on.

在马赛住了几星期后，我开始待不住了，决定换个地方。

3. restless night SLEEPa night during which you cannot sleep or rest 不眠之夜

Examples from the Corpus

restless night• Something of the atmosphere in Roxie Farmer's house seemed to go home with Coffin and give him a restless night.• I'd had quite a restless night, and breakfast didn't look appetizing.• I had quite a restless night, and did not really fancy the tea I was brought in the morning.• She had a restless night and is finding it difficult to sleep because of the memories of the attack.• Another restless night followed, but she determinedly settled down to work again the next morning.• After such a restless night, no doubt arguments were inevitable.• Her sleepless, restless night seemed a long way off.• After a restless night, she tried again next morning, but with no more success.• Hopefully Bill Gates will have a few restless nights too.• Sir John had spent a restless night, tossing from side to side in his great double bed.

—restlessly adverbadv

—restlessness noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

restless• But once again I grew restless.• I went off so often Frank began to notice and I said the heat made me restless.• The kids quickly grew restless and impatient.• They have, almost as a birthright, a restless dissatisfaction with the status quo.• She drifted outside, restless even in the garden - was it too ordered?• His restless imagination led him to develop a revolutionary software product.• As a precaution, I taped plastic sheeting over both seats, in case he got restless on his perch.• Thinking a great many thoughts about home and the morrow, we dropped off at last into a restless sleep.

become/grow/get restless• A man like that gets restless.• As one enthusiast to another they were soon deep in discussion until the children began to get restless.• But soon, I began to grow restless.• About the time Ed began getting restless, a family-owned firm in the same industry was looking for new blood.• First I fed and watered the spirits, who grew restless in their hunger.• As a precaution, I taped plastic sheeting over both seats, in case he got restless on his perch.• Frick was getting restless once again when the place simply exploded into action.• And the tourists, most of them, were getting restless - understandably so.

rest·less adjectiveadj

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