"Then why, if she is grown up and pretty, don't she have a beau?" Content stopped sobbing and gave him a quick glance. "Then -- why doesn't she get married, and go out West to live?" Jim chuckled. Instead of a sob, a faint echo of his chuckle came from Content. Jim laughed merrily. "I say, Content," he cried, "let's have it she's married now, and gone?" "Well," said Content. Jim put his arm around her very nicely and pro- tectingly. "It's all right, then," said he, "as all right as it can be for a girl. Say, Content, ain't it a shame you aren't a boy?" "I can't help it," said Content, meekly.英文原著 · 《The Copy-Cat》
And let them not imagine, either--as they are also fond of doing--that they are very wise and philosophical and that it is a very artful thing to be contented. It may be true that "a contented mind is happy anywhere," but so is a Jerusalem pony, and the consequence is that both are put anywhere and are treated anyhow. "Oh, you need not bother about him," is what is said; "he is very contented as he is, and it would be a pity to disturb him." And so your contented party is passed over and the discontented man gets his place.英文原著 · 《Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow》
But I wish to urge the case for cubic content; in which (even more than in moral content) I take a personal interest. Now, moral content has been undervalued and neglected because of its separation from the other meaning. It has become a negative rather than a positive thing. In some accounts of contentment it seems to be little more than a meek despair.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
The rector's face grew stern. "Content," he said, "look at me." Content looked. Looking seemed to be the in- stinctive action which distinguished her as an indi- vidual. "Have you a big sister -- Solly?" asked the rector. His face was stern, but his voice faltered. "Yes, sir." "Then -- tell me so." "I have a big sister Solly," said Content. Now she spoke rather wearily, although still sweetly, as if puzzled why she had been disturbed in sleep to be asked such an obvious question. "Where has she been all the time, that we have known nothing about her?" demanded the rector.英文原著 · 《The Copy-Cat》
What would she think?" Jim stared. "Think? Why, she isn't alive to think, anyhow!" "I can't make her -- dead," sobbed Content. "She came when I wanted her, and now when I don't so much, when I've got Uncle Edward and Aunt Sally and you, and don't feel so dreadful lonesome, I can't be so bad as to make her dead." Jim whistled. Then his face brightened up. He looked at Content with a shrewd and cheerful grin. "See here, kid, you say your sister Solly is big, grown up, don't you?" he inquired. Content nodded pitifully.英文原著 · 《The Copy-Cat》
"Content!" He laughed sardonically. "As well ask Tantalus if he is content, with the water always before his eyes and always out of reach. I want you --all you have to give. I couldn't be content with less."英文原著 · 《The Dust》
Go around the diner and have everyone fill it with the contents of their purse, and if you do, nobody gets hurt.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Cross-referenced e-mail contents, web histories, ten most profitable trades, anything that tried to duck compliance.美剧 · 《Billions》
It's the contentment of feeling warm, being warm.美剧 · 《Billions》
Good news is I'm now President of Ad Sales and Streamable Content for WhatTimeIsItRightNow.Com and...美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》