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You can think of convenient as a thing that fits into the shape of your day instead of pushing against it. The bus that comes at exactly the hour you finish work, the shop that is open when you actually need it, the meeting time that does not force you to move anything else — none of them make you do extra work, so they slide into a space you already had. That is the feeling inside the word: not that something is good, but that it costs you almost nothing in time or trouble.
convenient 可以想成「剛好卡進你原本生活的空隙裡」的東西。下班那一刻剛好來的公車、你真正需要時剛好開著的店…更多收起
convenient 可以想成「剛好卡進你原本生活的空隙裡」的東西。下班那一刻剛好來的公車、你真正需要時剛好開著的店、不用挪動其他行程的會議時間——它們都沒有逼你多做什麼，就這樣塞進你本來就空著的位置。所以這個字重點不在「好不好」，而在「花你多少力氣」：愈不用你額外調整、愈不製造麻煩，就愈 convenient。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
convenientadj/kənˈviː.niənt/
- 1
Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.
- Fast food might be convenient, but it's also very unhealthy.
- 'If you please, m'm,' said Chloe at the door, 'there's the detective here again, and he would like to see the master if it's convenient.'
- 2
Suspicious due to suiting someone's purposes very well.
- How convenient that you caught a cold the night before your essay was due.
- 3
obsoleteFit; suitable; appropriate.
- Feed me with food convenient for me.
- Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。