content是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /a. /vt. 满意(的) , 使满意(足) n. 内容, 目录，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One or two stiff gales and the springing of a leak are accidents which experienced navigators scarce-ly remember to record, and I shall be well content if nothing worse happen to us during our voyage.
-- As a child I had not been content with the results promised by the mod-ern professors of natural science.
-- 'You are in the wrong,' replied the fiend; 'and instead of threatening, I am content to reason with you.
-- What I ask of you is reasonable and moderate; I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself; the gratification is small, but it is all that I can receive, and it shall content me.
-- My companion will beof the same nature as myself and will be content with the same fare.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not content with Stuart alone, she had set her cap for Brent as well, and with a thoroughness thatoverwhelmed the two of them.
-- The barbecue was over and all were content to taketheir ease while sun was at its height.
-- They had been kind in Savannah, but James and Andrew and their wives wereold and content to sit quietly and talk of a past in which Scarlett had no interest.
-- How could Melanie be content to stay at homeand never have any fun and wear cr脙陋pe for her brother when she was only eighteen years old?
-- Shewas seventeen years old and she had a husband lying at Oakland Cemetery and a baby in his cradle at Aunt Pittypat'sand everyone thought she should be content with her lot.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After this escape, I was content to take a foggy view of the Inn through the window's encrusting dirt, and to stand dolefully looking out, saying to myself that London was decidedly overrated.
-- If there had been time, I should probably have ordered several suits of clothes for this occasion; but as there was not, I was fain to be content with those I had.
-- When I woke up in the night,--like Camilla,--I used to think, with a weariness on my spirits, that I should have been happier and better if I had never seen Miss Havisham's face, and had risen to manhood content to be partners with Joe in the honest old forge.
-- So I put them round his neck, and she laid her head down on his shoulder quite content and satisfied.
-- "Dear boy," he answered, "I'm quite content to take my chance.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- lthough I intend to leave the description of this em-Apire to a particular treatise, yet, in the mean time, I am content to gratify the curious reader with some general ideas.
-- This envoy had instructions to represent to the monarch of Blefuscu, 'the great lenity of his master, who was content to punish me no farther than with the loss of mine eyes; that I had fled from justice; and if I did not re-turn in two hours, I should be deprived of my title of nardac, and declared a traitor.'
-- She asked, 'whether I could be content to live at court?'
-- By all which, instead of being discouraged, they are fifty times more violently bent upon prosecuting their schemes, driven equally on by hope and despair: that as for himself, being not of an enterpris-ing spirit, he was content to go on in the old forms, to live in the houses his ancestors had built, and act as they did, in every part of life, without innovation: that some few other persons of quality and gentry had done the same, but were looked on with an eye of contempt and ill-will, as enemies to art, ignorant, and ill common-wealth's men, preferring their own ease and sloth before the general improvement of their country.'
-- The king heard of all that had passed between me and my friends upon this occasion, and rallied me very pleasant-ly; wishing I could send a couple of struldbrugs to my own country, to arm our people against the fear of death; but this, it seems, is forbidden by the fundamental laws of the kingdom, or else I should have been well content with the trouble and expense of transporting them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Left alone with her mother, Louisa saw her lying with an awful lull upon her face, like one who was floating away upon some great water, all resistance over, content to be carried down the stream.
-- A working woman, christened Rachael, after a long illness once again appearing at the ringing of the Factory bell, and passing to and fro at the set hours, among the Coketown Hands; a woman of pensive beauty, always dressed in black, but sweet-tempered and serene, and even cheerful; who, of all the people in the place, alone appeared to have compassion on a degraded, drunken wretch of her own sex, who was sometimes seen in the town secretly begging of her, and crying to her; a woman working, ever working, but content to do it, and preferring to do it as her natural lot, until she should be too old to labour any more?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the present we must be content with a good and solid raft."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was to be content to weave a steady life with him, all one fabric, but perhaps brocaded with the occasional flower of an adventure.
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