【例1】She hadn’t read the letter and so was unaware of its contents.她沒有看那封信,所以不知道信的內容。
【例2】He is content to stay in his present job.他對現在的工作心滿意足。
【同義替換】satisfied, complacent
【派生】contented a.滿足的;心安的 contentedly ad.滿足地
【真題】To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.如今去讀這種書會讓人們對這樣的一種事實感到十分驚訝:人們曾經認為,這些學術性的內容很適合在面向普通大眾發行的日報上刊登。
★ convince
v.(of)使信服,使確信
【例】What she said convinced me that I was mistaken.她的一番話使我認識到我錯了。
【構詞】con-+vinc(征服)+e→征服→說服,使信服
【同義替換】ensure, assure, confirm
【派生】convincible a.可信服的 convincing a.令人信服的,有說服力的
【真題】This, he thought, could not be true, because the “Origin of Species” is one long argument from the beginning to the end, and has convinced many able men.他認為這些指責不可能是正確的,這是因為人們對《物種起源》從始至終爭論不休,許多有能力的人都相信其觀點。