单词 | contented |
释义 | contented (kəntentɪd ) adjective If you are contented, you are satisfied with your life or the situation you are in. Whenever he returns to this place he is happy and contented. She was gazing at him with a soft, contented smile on her face. Synonyms: satisfied, happy, pleased, content contentedly graded adverb The landlady sighed contentedly. Collocations: contented life Well' little can be said about a contented life. Somewhere East of Life (1994) How would they take to being uprooted from their contented life in California? Times, Sunday Times (2011) It involved, on one side, gratification of the self through a joyous and contented life. THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World (2002) Yet there was a happy, contented smile on his face as he spoke about what life had given him — not taken away. The Sun I'm close enough to see a tuft of stubble on his chin and, surprising given the circumstances, the trace of a contented smile. Times, Sunday Times I watched them eating their breakfasts with a deep, contented smile, the occasional bliss of a father with the day off work and no washing up to do. The Sun She smothers a small, contented smile and then fires up the car and reverses past me. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 满意的 Japanese: 満足している |
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