convenient是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. (to) 便利的， 方便的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was no passive belief, but an active weapon which they flashed at more convenient plac-es of business.
-- Towards that small and ghostly hour, he rose up from his chair, took a key out of his pocket, opened a locked cupboard, and brought forth a sack, a crowbar of convenient size, a rope and chain, and other fishing tackle of that nature.
-- The burning of the body (previously reduced to pieces convenient for the purpose) was com-menced without delay in the kitchen fire; and the tools, shoes, and leather, were buried in the garden.
-- The people in possession of the house had let them in at the gate, and they had rushed in to work at the grindstone; it had evidently been set up there for their purpose, as in a convenient and retired spot.
-- It was an ordinance of the Republic One and Indivisible of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death, that on the door or doorpost of every house, the name of every inmate must be legibly inscribed in letters of a certain size, at a certain convenient height from the ground.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We in the country try to bring our hands into such a state as will be most convenient for working with.
-- From the date of their conversation after the party at Princess Tverskaya's he had never spoken again to Anna of his suspicions and his jealousies, and that habitual tone of his bantering mimicry was the most convenient tone possible for his present attitude to his wife.
-- He had only to recall his brother's wife, to remember how that sweet, delightful Varya sought, at every convenient opportunity, to remind him that she remembered his generosity and appreciated it, to grasp the impossibility of taking back his gift.
-- All such questions as, for instance, of the cause of failure of crops, of the adherence of certain tribes to their ancient beliefs, etc.-- questions which, but for the convenient intervention of the official machine, are not, and cannot be solved for ages-- received full, unhesitating solution.
-- He likes discussions with them," she thought, and passed instantly to the consideration of where it would be more convenient to put Katavasov, to sleep alone or to share Sergey Ivanovitch's room.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT FINDS OUT THAT, EVEN AT THE ANTIPODES, IT IS CONVENIENT TO HAVE SOME MONEY IN ONE'S POCKETThe Carnatic, setting sail from Hong Kong at half-past six on the 7th of November, directed her course at full steam towards Japan.
-- The car, which was some fifty feet long, was very convenient for their purpose.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not astounding that he should have become almost rich, for he accepted nothing that was not natural and convenient to Andrew Jackson Tozer.
-- He began to consider Leora's clothes not merely as convenient coverings, but as a possible expression of charm, and irritably he realized how careless she was.
-- She could, she said, kill a man who considered her merely convenient furniture, and she uncomfortably emphasized the "kill."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could never understand and explain to himself why, when he was tired and worn out, when it would have been more convenient for him to go home by the shortest and most direct way, he had returned by the Hay Market where he had no need to go.
-- There were not so many people there, he would be less observed, and it would be more convenient in every way, above all it was further off.
-- 'I am not particularly interested in anyone's opin-ion,' Svidriga脙炉lov answered, dryly and even with a shade of haughtiness, 'and therefore why not be vulgar at times when vulgarity is such a convenient cloak for our climate 芒聙娄 and especially if one has a natural propensity that way,' he added, laughing again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was very sorry for her; but there were moments 43when it would have been more agreeable, I thought, if Mrs.Gummidge had had a convenient apartment of her own to retire to,and had stopped there until her spirits revived.
-- I then toldSteerforth that my aunt was in town awaiting me (as I found fromher letter), and that she had taken lodgings for a week at a kind ofprivate hotel in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where there was a stonestaircase, and a convenient door in the roof, my aunt being firmly 322persuaded that every house in London was going to be burnt downevery night.
-- My aunt reported to us, afterwards, that, at first, he was like aman playing the kettle-drums, and constantly divided hisattentions between the two; but that, finding this confuse andfatigue him, and having his copy there, plainly before his eyes, hesoon sat at it in an orderly business-like manner, and postponedthe Memorial to a more convenient time.
-- 'If our brother Francis'swife had found it convenient in her lifetime (though she had anunquestionable right to act as she thought best) to invite the familyto her dinner-table, we might have known our brother Francis'schild better at the present moment.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was most convenient to Emma not to make a direct reply to this assertion; she chose rather to take up her own line of the subject again.
-- She introduced him to her friend, Miss Smith, and, at convenient moments afterwards, heard what each thought of the other.
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