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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had to content myself with the different specimens of fish brought up by the nets.
-- I could no longer content myself with the theory which satisfied Conseil.
-- "A poet's explanation, Captain Nemo," I replied; "but I cannot content myself with that.
-- So I shall content myself with drawing from the reserve of sodium I already possess.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The real content of the words he never really considered: he himself knew better.
-- Some of us has to be content with Willey Green and Beldover.
-- It was such peace and heavenly freedom, just to fold her and kiss her gently, and not to have any thoughts or any desires or any will, just to be still with her, to be perfectly still and together, in a peace that was not sleep, but content in bliss.
-- To be content in bliss, without desire or insistence anywhere, this was heaven: to be together in happy stillness.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I said: 'you'll never be content till you're sent about your business.
-- However, if I am to follow my story in true gossip's fashion, I had better go on; and instead of leaping three years, I will be content to pass to the next summer the summer of 1778, that is nearly twenty three years ago.
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