Convenient

(adj.) suited to your comfort or purpose or needs; 'a convenient excuse for not going' .

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• 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. 科学通论.
• It's convenient to have you at all times ready on the premises. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• 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_. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• 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. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The vote has become a convenient peg upon which to hang aspirations that are not at all sure of their own meaning. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• How very convenient! 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• When it is convenient. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• 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. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It has now been adopted by a great many business organizations as a convenient means of inter-communication. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Moreover, Lydgate did not like the consciousness that in voting for Tyke he should be voting on the side obviously convenient for himself. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• 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. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Two doorways should be left by cutting out a single studding in each compartment upon the most convenient side. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• 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. 世纪发明.
• 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. 科学通论.
• 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. 科学通论.
• Nor are the rocks of the world in orderly layers one above the other, convenient for men to read. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Yes, I shouldn't wonder if they was convenient,' replied the gentleman, 'seeing that a few people live there, pretty snug. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Every foot of road had to be guarded by troops stationed at convenient distances apart. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Satan himself could not scare him, and he is convenient--very convenient. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Yours is a very modest and convenient sort of calumny, Major Dobbin, Rebecca said. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• 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. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• 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. 维莱特.
• 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. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• For they did not find it convenient to buy every part of it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• 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·萨克雷. 名利场.
• 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·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• 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. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The same violence which made it convenient to hoard, made it equally convenient to conceal the hoard. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Then it's not convenient to-night? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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