Convenient
[kən'viːnɪənt] or [kən'vinɪənt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) suited to your comfort or purpose or needs; 'a convenient excuse for not going' .
編輯:罗赞娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) Fit or adapted; suitable; proper; becoming; appropriate.
(v. i.) Affording accommodation or advantage; well adapted to use; handly; as, a convenient house; convenient implements or tools.
(v. i.) Seasonable; timely; opportune; as, a convenient occasion; a convenient season.
(v. i.) Near at hand; easy of access.
錄入:皮埃尔
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Fit, suitable, proper, appropriate, adapted, suited.[2]. Commodious, advantageous, useful, serviceable, helpful, beneficial.
整理:劳拉
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Handy, apt, adapted, fitted, suitable, helpful, commodious, useful, timely,seasonable, opportune
ANT:Inconvenient, awkward, obstructive, useless, superfluous, unseasonable,untimely, inopportune
手打:利蒂希娅
解釋/意思:
adj. suitable: handy: commodious.—adj. Conven′able (obs.) fitting.—ns. Conven′ience Conven′iency suitableness: an advantage: any particular domestic accommodation as a closet &c.—adv. Conven′iently.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The shortness of the mercury column as compared with that of water makes the mercury more convenient for both experimental and practical purposes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- It's convenient to have you at all times ready on the premises. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- So convenient a thing it is to be a _reasonable creature_, since _it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do_. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The vote has become a convenient peg upon which to hang aspirations that are not at all sure of their own meaning. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- How very convenient! 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- When it is convenient. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Quashy shall do my will, and not his, all the days of his mortal life, and have such chance of getting to heaven, at last, as I find convenient. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- It has now been adopted by a great many business organizations as a convenient means of inter-communication. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Moreover, Lydgate did not like the consciousness that in voting for Tyke he should be voting on the side obviously convenient for himself. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Elizabeth could hardly help laughing at so convenient a proposal; yet was really vexed that her mother should be always giving him such an epithet. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Two doorways should be left by cutting out a single studding in each compartment upon the most convenient side. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- But now it is only necessary to have a convenient forest of almost any kind of wood to justify the establishment of a paper mill. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- It is safe to say that electricity would never have been used on a large scale if some less expensive and more convenient source than zinc had not been found. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Acetylene is seldom used in large cities, but it is very widely used in small communities and is particularly convenient in more or less remote summer residences. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Nor are the rocks of the world in orderly layers one above the other, convenient for men to read. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Yes, I shouldn't wonder if they was convenient,' replied the gentleman, 'seeing that a few people live there, pretty snug. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Every foot of road had to be guarded by troops stationed at convenient distances apart. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Satan himself could not scare him, and he is convenient--very convenient. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Yours is a very modest and convenient sort of calumny, Major Dobbin, Rebecca said. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The general scheme, briefly outlined, is to prepare a model and plans of the house to be cast, and then to design a set of molds in sections of convenient size. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I hope, ma'am, the present residence, my mother's house, appears to you a convenient place of abode? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- 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. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- For they did not find it convenient to buy every part of it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Our sermon books are shut up when Miss Crawley arrives, and Mr. Pitt, whom she abominates, finds it convenient to go to town. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Geologists make certain main divisions of the Cainozoic period, and it will be convenient to name them here and to indicate their climate. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This, however, is thought to be a mere strain upon the text; for the words are these: 'that all true believers break their eggs at the convenient end. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- The same violence which made it convenient to hoard, made it equally convenient to conceal the hoard. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Then it's not convenient to-night? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
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