contentment
/kənˈtɛntmənt/ 名词 C1中文： 满足、知足
- The state or degree of being contented or satisfied.
- Happiness in one's situation; satisfaction
- The neurophysiological experience of satisfaction and being at ease in one's situation, body, and/or mind.
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Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.
The evening was spent chiefly in talking over Hertfordshire news, and telling again what had been already written; and when it closed, Elizabeth, in the solitude of her chamber, had to meditate upon Charlotte’s degree of contentment, to understand her address in guiding, and composure in bearing with, her husband, and to acknowledge that it was all done very well.
_Your_ retrospections must be so totally void of reproach, that the contentment arising from them is not of philosophy, but, what is much better, of ignorance.
Gardiner about this time reminded Elizabeth of her promise concerning that gentleman, and required information; and Elizabeth had such to send as might rather give contentment to her aunt than to herself.
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