(noun.) the quality of being useful and convenient; 'they offered the convenience of an installment plan'.
(noun.) the state of being suitable or opportune; 'chairs arranged for his own convenience'.
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双语例句
He knew her illnesses; they never occurred but for her own convenience. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
If you want to study anybody's convenience, it had better be Miss Halcombe's. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
Talk about our keeping slaves, as if we did it for our _convenience_, said Marie. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
The order and convenience of a palace are no less essential to its beauty, than its mere figure and appearance. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
For convenience sake, we have said, hitherto, two _gentlemen_. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
And in return I will, at my own convenience, tell you what you desire to know about your parentage. 弗格斯·休姆.奇幻岛.
It is, I believe, too little yielding--certainly too little for the convenience of the world. 简·奥斯汀.傲慢与偏见.
It was in vain to represent to her that some conveniences, tea perhaps included, resulted from this objectionable practice. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
Why, he said, you should give them the ordinary conveniences of life. 柏拉图.理想国.
For the conveniences of forage, the teams for supplying the army were kept at Harper's Ferry. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
But beside all this, the bulk of our people supported themselves by furnishing the necessities or conveniences of life to the rich and to each other. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
Since that age, it is true, I had lived luxuriously, or at least surrounded by all the conveniences civilization afforded. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
Merchants and traders in unarmed ships, who accommodate different nations by communicating and exchanging the necessaries and conveniences of life. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
It is associated too much with the comforts and conveniences of life; too little with 'the goods of the soul which we desire for their own sake. 柏拉图.理想国.