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：
-- I have heard that the Delawares have laid aside the hatchet, and are content to be called women!'
-- Magua seemed also content to rest the controversy as well as all further communication there, for he resumed the leaning attitude against the rock from which, in momentary energy, he had arisen.
-- The savages now fell back, and seemed content to let their enemies advance without further molestation.
-- Though ready to slay, and not over regardful of the means, he is commonly content with the scalp, unless when blood is hot, and temper up; but after spirit is once fairly gone, he forgets his enmity, and is willing to let the dead find their natural rest.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Old Baltus Van Tassel moved about among his guests with a face dilated with content and goodhumor, round and jolly as the harvest moon.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was unsatisfactory, and I could not imagine that she would be content with me; I was not content with myself.
-- The great majority are perfectly content to do the ordinary thing."
-- I read a page here and there, and made acquaintance with a great many authors whom I was content to know thus desultorily.
-- Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them.
-- But I must content myself with a few paragraphs.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pencroft knew fifty ways of cooking eggs, but this time he had no choice, and was obliged to content himself with roasting them under the hot cinders.
-- The lad was obliged to content himself with dipping his handkerchief in the stream, and with it hastened back to the grotto.
-- Content yourself with winding it up very, exactly, but do not touch the hands.
-- The explorers were, however, obliged to content themselves with bows and arrows.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In point of fact, it would seem that the waiter felt this wholesome truth, for when he returned for the empty plates and dishes and was informed by Mr Swiveller with dignified carelessness that he would call and settle when he should be passing presently, he displayed some perturbation of spirit and muttered a few remarks about 'payment on delivery' and 'no trust,' and other unpleasant subjects, but was fain to content himself with inquiring at what hour it was likely that the gentleman would call, in order that being presently responsible for the beef, greens, and sundries, he might take to be in the way at the time.
-- And so he went on, content to read the book of her heart from the page first presented to him, little dreaming of the story that lay hidden in its other leaves, and murmuring within himself that at least the child was happy.
-- But everything was clean and neat, and as the child glanced round, she felt a tranquil air of comfort and content to which she had long been unaccustomed.
-- But the sad scene she had witnessed, was not without its lesson of content and gratitude; of content with the lot which left her health and freedom; and gratitude that she was spared to the one relative and friend she loved, and to live and move in a beautiful world, when so many young creatures as young and full of hope as she were stricken down and gathered to their graves.
-- But, the bitterness of her grief was not in beholding him in this condition, when he was at least content and tranquil, nor in her solitary meditations on his altered state, though these were trials for a young heart.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I cannot abandon the woman whom I have loved and content myself with paying money to the lawyer to save her from penal servitude, which she does not even deserve."
-- It surprised him particularly that not only was Maslova not ashamed of her condition, but, on the contrary, she seemed to be content with, and even took pride in it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Man had been content to live in ease and delight upon the labours of his fellow-man, had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse, and in the fullness of time Necessity had come home to him.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'm quite content to stay here only I am so hot and thirsty!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But my mother, frightened as she was, would not consent to take a fraction more than was due to her and was obstinately unwilling to be content with less.
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