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：
-- Still she would be content with this little house, if only it were in a world of its own.
-- She was very well content to be quite her own mistress: and mistress of her two children, whom she was going to bring up 'prop-erly', whatever that may mean.
-- I'm not content to be any man's little petsy-wetsy, nor his CHAIR 脗路 PLAISIR either.
-- Connie was quite content to keep quiet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'For goodness sake content yourself with Pet.'
-- That child had no doubts, asked herself no question, for she was but too content to see him with a lustre round his head.
-- I am content to regard that individual in the light of ha generally a well-behaved person.
-- They were in the jail again, and she tended him, and he had constant need of her, and could not turn without her; and he even told her, sometimes, that he was content to have undergone a great deal for her sake.
-- He was content to protest against this by a slight action without contesting it in words.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No gentleman were admitted, so Jo played male parts to her heart's content and took immense satisfaction in a pair of russet leather boots given her by a friend, who knew a lady who knew an actor.
-- I am content to see Meg begin humbly, for if I am not mistaken, she will be rich in the possession of a good man's heart, and that is better than a fortune.'
-- I am content with what I have, Little be it, or much.
-- Meg is so, and I am content with her success.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Strange!Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder warehouses will not suffice.
-- Here was a man some twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is which was the only way he could get there thrown among people as strange to him as though he were in the planet Jupiter; and yet he seemed entirely at his ease; preserving the utmost serenity; content with his own companionship; always equal to himself.
-- But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of enlightening his untutored countrymen.
-- But I am one of those that never take on about princely fortunes, and am quite content if the world is ready to board and lodge me, while I am putting up at this grim sign of the Thunder Cloud.
-- Yet as of late the Sperm Whale fishery had been marked by various and not unfrequent instances of great ferocity, cunning, and malice in the monster attacked; therefore it was, that those who by accident ignorantly gave battle to Moby Dick; such hunters, perhaps, for the most part, were content to ascribe the peculiar terror he bred, more, as it were, to the perils of the Sperm Whale fishery at large, than to the individual cause.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I've been lamed with orange-peel once, and I know orange-peel will be my death, or I'll be content to eat my own head, sir!'
-- And he demanded, with a sneer, whether the housekeeper was in the habit of counting the plate at night; because if she didn't find a table-spoon or two missing some sunshiny morning, why, he would be content to--and so forth.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could have been content to have taken this Moor with me, and have drowned the boy, but there was no ventur-ing to trust him.
-- As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and leave the happy view I had of being a rich and thriving man in my new plantation, only to pursue a rash and immoderate desire of rising faster than the nature of the thing admitted; and thus I cast myself down again into the deepest gulf of human misery that ever man fell into, or perhaps could be consistent with life and a state of health in the world.
-- However, this I bore with, and was content to work it out with patience, and bear with the badness of the perfor-mance.
-- CHAPTER XIII - WRECK OF A SPANISH SHIPI WAS now in the twenty-third year of my residence in this island, and was so naturalised to the place and the manner of living, that, could I but have enjoyed the certainty that no savages would come to the place to disturb me, I could have been content to have capitulated for spending the rest of my time there, even to the last moment, till I had laid me down and died, like the old goat in the cave.
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