单词	convenience
释义	conveniencecon‧ve‧ni‧ence /kənˈviːniəns/ ●●○ noun Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Being able to pay bills over the Internet is a real convenience. People are willing to pay higher rent for the convenience of living near mass transit. The new Accord station wagon offers safety and convenience. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS He sits in front of a convenience store and asks customers for quarters. In these experiments, humans were used for convenience, because they're good at following directions. No inmate, however, was to be confined at night without being provided with a bed and other conveniences. Some people might be tempted by convenience. The convenience of the high trees! The D metric is a computational convenience. They selected 166 convenience foods for cost comparisons with home prepared counterparts. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► suit the convenience of  Services should be run to suit the convenience of the customer, not the staff. ► modern conveniences  a hotel with all the modern conveniences COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► administrative · The change in the figures appeared to be due to things like administrative convenience.· But this bogus community, spirited up to serve administrative convenience, does not exist.· Does he agree that access to justice is more important than administrative convenience?· Prices in such circumstances become an administrative convenience or merely irrelevant. ► great · For instance ice which is formed on salt water is substantially fresh, to the great convenience of Polar explorers.· Advantages of the nondairy toppings over whipping cream are lower fat content, lower cost per serving, and greater convenience.· Used properly, bothies are places of great convenience and delight, but do remember a couple of important points.· The lorry, with its greater flexibility and convenience to farmers and country shippers, was about to take over.· And a more frequent service meant greater passenger convenience. ► modern · Contrary to modem popular opinion these were splendid ships with excellent accommodation and many modern conveniences for both crew and passengers.· I don't want to give up modern conveniences such as my computer or garage door opener.· The lack of modern conveniences does not reflect an unusual form of asceticism.· The nuns do not, as a matter of religious conviction, use such modern conveniences, but city bureaucrats were implacable.· Like Povoado de Jose Valerio, most of the villages know no modern conveniences.· We can accommodate anywhere from 20 to more than 300 people, with all the modern conveniences.· The cell phone has turned into more than a modern day convenience, it is a status symbol. ► public · It was used as a public convenience for more than a hundred years.· The woman stepped lightly away on her high-heeled, patent leather boots to her basket-work Mini parked beside the public convenience. NOUN► food · It's a good buy, particularly if you frequently heat convenience foods.· To conclude this discussion of convenience foods, two points can be made.· This vitamin loss is a reason why those expensive ready-made and overcooked convenience foods are not as nourishing.· They selected 166 convenience foods for cost comparisons with home prepared counterparts.· If you live a fast, hectic life and you eat mostly ready-made convenience foods, try to consider some other alternatives.· They reported that quality-wise, the convenience foods did not differ significantly from the home-prepared items.· The loveliest remarks on this phenomenon come from the corporate convenience food conveyancers.· Cooks around the world love a good convenience food. ► store · Police spoke of a benign new law enforcement tactic no more intrusive than a video camera at a convenience store.· Price these items in two supermarkets and a convenience store.· At a convenience store / gas station in Manvel, several people seek refuge from the storms.· Soon, the station will complete a new, larger convenience store.· Craig comes in from his job at a convenience store.· Few businesses larger than convenience stores planned to open today.· The call was traced to a pay phone at a convenience store. VERB► suit · Services should be run to suit the convenience of customers, not of staff. ► use · The nuns do not, as a matter of religious conviction, use such modern conveniences, but city bureaucrats were implacable.· It was used as a public convenience for more than a hundred years.· Please make copies of this so that you may use them at your convenience in the future to return information to the Council. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► at your earliest convenience We should be grateful if you would reply at your earliest convenience. Could you therefore please telephone me at your earliest convenience? I also enclose a Medical Assessment Card which you should complete and return at your earliest convenience. ► a marriage of convenience Gerard Depardieu plays a French immigrant in a marriage of convenience with Andie McDowell. After all, it was a marriage of convenience for her. He told me he was in a marriage of convenience. It was a marriage of convenience. The Home Office had suspected that it was a marriage of convenience, to get the woman in. Though the diplomatic courtship is at an early stage, the Foreign Office is optimistic about such a marriage of convenience. Word family WORD FAMILYnounconvenience ≠ inconvenienceadjectiveconvenient ≠ inconvenientverbinconvenienceadverbconveniently ≠ inconveniently 1[uncountable] the quality of being suitable or useful for a particular purpose, especially by making something easier or saving you time:  Ready meals sell well because of their convenience.the convenience of doing something Most of us like the convenience of using credit cards to buy things.for convenience For convenience, the German translation is printed below.2[uncountable] what is easiest and best for a particular personat somebody’s convenience (=at a time that is best and easiest for someone) These meals can be prepared in advance, and served at your convenience.for somebody’s convenience For your convenience, the bank is open until 7 p.m. Services should be run to suit the convenience of the customer, not the staff.3[countable] something that is useful because it saves you time or means that you have less work to do:  The supermarket offers a bag-packing service, as a convenience to customers. a hotel with all the modern conveniences4at your earliest convenience formal as soon as possible – used in letters:  We should be grateful if you would reply at your earliest convenience.5[countable usually plural] (also public convenience) formal a public toilet6a marriage of convenience a marriage that has been agreed for a particular purpose, not because the two people love each other:  In the past most royal marriages were marriages of convenience, arranged for political reasons.
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