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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lady Helena could not go on shore as she had purposed; indeed, even coaling was a difficult business, and the passengers had to content themselves below the poop as best they might.
-- "You're not content with your supper, most learned Paganel."
-- The hunters were obliged to content themselves with humbler game, though in an alimentary point of view nothing better could be wished.
-- Paganel was obliged to be content with this unsatisfactory reply, and went back to Glenarvan to report the result of his conversation.
-- Paganel, who knew fifty ways of dressing eggs, was obliged for this once to be content with simply hardening them on the hot embers.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would withdraw all op-position upon his part if I would promise for three months to let the matter rest and to be content with cultivating the lady's friendship during that time without claiming her love.
-- To do so would be to descend to the level of these poor peasants, who are not content with a mere fiend dog but must needs describe him with hell-fire shooting from his mouth and eyes.
-- An ordinary schemer would have been content to work with a savage hound.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If she cannot receive you now, you must be content to wait till another time.
-- She asks me what I come for, as if she were not content with having disgraced me ' 'Disgraced you!How?'
-- It is too late to read the letters now; I am content to state the fact.
-- Dok-torenko disagrees with me, but I am content to differ from him on this point.
-- Perhaps Lizabetha Prokofievna was alone in making these fretful observations; the girls, though not wanting in intelligence, were still young; the general was intelligent, too, but narrow, and in any difficulty he was content to say, 'H'm!'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now you must be content to skip ten or eleven whole years, and only guess at all the wonderful life that Mow-gli led among the wolves, because if it were written out it would fill ever so many books.
-- Then Shere Khan would flatter them and wonder that such fine young hunters were content to be led by a dy-ing wolf and a man's cub.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Notwithstanding a constant application of his one armed heel to the flanks of the mare, the most confirmed gait that he could establish was a Canterbury gallop with the hind legs, in which those more forward assisted for doubtful mo-ments, though generally content to maintain a loping trot.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I was not content with this discovery; but having now more courage, and consequently more curiosity, I took my man Friday with me, giving him the sword in his hand, with the bow and arrows at his back, which I found he could use very dexterously, making him carry one gun for me, and I two for myself; and away we marched to the place where these creatures had been; for I had a mind now to get some further intelligence of them.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What magnificent orders would travel from this family to London," said Edward, "in such an event!What a happy day for booksellers, music-sellers, and print-shops!You, Miss Dashwood, would give a general commission for every new print of merit to be sent you and as for Marianne, I know her greatness of soul, there would not be music enough in London to content her.
-- Of breakfast she had been kept by her fears, and of dinner by their sudden reverse, from eating much; and the present refreshment, therefore, with such feelings of content as she brought to it, was particularly welcome.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of her order of mind would have been content to be cast away upon a desert island with a bundle of money, and only the long strain of starvation would have taught her that in some cases it could have no value.
-- They came shuffling in with a great show of finery and much evident feeling of content and importance.
-- She did not want Drouet or his money when she thought of it, nor anything more to do with Hurstwood, but only the content and ease of mind she had experienced, for, after all, she had been happy--happier, at least, than she was now when confronted by the necessity of making her way alone.
-- On the strength of this, he was content to lose his ante.
-- In his almost inexplicable apathy he was content to droop supinely while Carrie drifted out of his life, just as he was willing supinely to see opportunity pass beyond his control.
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