英语词汇“content”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

content

释义

(also + with) happy or satisfied

She was content with her progress

not content with

in spite of having achieved something

Not content with having secured the lion's share, she set about stealing everybody else's

contentment noun

[Latin contentus, past part. of continēre: see contain]

to satisfy (somebody) or appease their desires

It takes very little to content him

content oneself with

to accept (something that is less than one really wants)

He had to content himself with a single helping seeing no more was on offer

a state of happy satisfaction; esp freedom from care or discomfort

to one's heart's content

as much as one wants

You can wander round the countryside to your heart's content

(in pl) the things that are contained in something

The contents of the drawer were strewn over the floor

(also table of contents) (in pl) the topics and material advertised as treated in a written work

the matter dealt with in a literary work, lecture, speech, etc, as distinct from its form or style of presentation: compare form¹ (9b)

the amount or proportion of a specified material contained in something

the lead content of paint

contentless adj

[medieval Latin contentum (pl contenta) thing(s) contained, past part. of continēre: see contain]

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