contentment• Mitchell gave up his job, and says he found peace and contentment in living close to the land.• The people of the village seem to live in peace and contentment.• The sight of them all gave her a feeling of warmth and contentment.• Together, they find contentment, then discover she is to have his child.• On his side he received what her generositybestowed with great contentment.• Her maidscarried them upstairs and demure Penelope retired with great contentment in her heart.• His contentmentvanished when he reached the stream.• May contentmentreign within its borders, health and happiness within its homes.• I look for smiles and expressions of contentment in people's faces as I pass, but I don't see them very often.• The feeling of contentment produced by gin-and-water had now disappeared, and the beadle was in a bad mood once more.• Then she found she was doing all this already, and a sigh of uttercontentmentshivered through her.• Joey sighed with contentment, snuggling down in his warmbed.
deep contentment• This kind of joy is a deep contentment, fulfilment and peace from within.• Lightheartedly, full of such deep contentment, I start to descend.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + CONTENTMENT | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤deep, quiet深感滿意;平靜而滿足◇He gazed out to sea, with a feeling of deep contentment.他凝視着大海,感到深深的滿足。◇She fell asleep in quiet contentment.她平靜而滿足地睡着了。VERB + CONTENTMENT➤find找到滿足◇They finally found contentment in living a simple life.他們終於在簡單的生活中得到了滿足。➤feel感到滿足PREPOSITION➤with contentment滿足地◇She sighed with contentment.她心滿意足地舒了口氣。PHRASES➤a feeling of contentment滿足感