Convenience
[kən'viːnɪəns] or [kən'vinɪəns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the quality of being useful and convenient; 'they offered the convenience of an installment plan'.
(noun.) the state of being suitable or opportune; 'chairs arranged for his own convenience'.
贝丽尔整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Alt. of Conveniency
伊莎贝拉錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Suitableness, fitness, propriety.[2]. Commodiousness, accommodation, satisfaction.[3]. Cause of satisfaction, source of comfort.
整理:米歇尔
例句/造句/用法:
- He knew her illnesses; they never occurred but for her own convenience. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- If you want to study anybody's convenience, it had better be Miss Halcombe's. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Talk about our keeping slaves, as if we did it for our _convenience_, said Marie. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The order and convenience of a palace are no less essential to its beauty, than its mere figure and appearance. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- For convenience sake, we have said, hitherto, two _gentlemen_. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- And in return I will, at my own convenience, tell you what you desire to know about your parentage. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- It is, I believe, too little yielding--certainly too little for the convenience of the world. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- It was in vain to represent to her that some conveniences, tea perhaps included, resulted from this objectionable practice. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Why, he said, you should give them the ordinary conveniences of life. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- For the conveniences of forage, the teams for supplying the army were kept at Harper's Ferry. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- But beside all this, the bulk of our people supported themselves by furnishing the necessities or conveniences of life to the rich and to each other. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Since that age, it is true, I had lived luxuriously, or at least surrounded by all the conveniences civilization afforded. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Merchants and traders in unarmed ships, who accommodate different nations by communicating and exchanging the necessaries and conveniences of life. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- It is associated too much with the comforts and conveniences of life; too little with 'the goods of the soul which we desire for their own sake. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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