喜樂美語
  1. 1不滿

    Discontent is the feeling of not being happy with how things are — you want something to change. It is not a sudden flash of anger; it sits there. Workers can feel discontent about pay; a country can be full of political discontent. As a noun it can also mean the people who feel this way (“the discontents”), though that use is less common now. There is a verb too: to discontent someone is to make them feel this way, but you will mostly meet the noun. Newspapers and essays like it. In everyday talk people more often say they are not happy, they are fed up, or they are . Milder than rage; more serious than a passing bad mood.

From the word’s history

dis- + content.

由 dis- 和 content 組成。

Wiktionary

組成dis- (the opposite / taking away) + content (happy with what you have).

同家族的字

  • contentsatisfied with what you have; this word is dis- plus that
  • contentedthe adjective for feeling content
  • discontentedthe usual adjective for this feeling

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

discontentnoun/ˌdɪskənˈtɛnt/

  • 1

    Dissatisfaction.

    • Another source of discontent with the Phase I stock has been obviated by relocation of the interior heating elements and the introduction of thermostatic control; this has eradicated the searing blasts of hot air passengers used to feel about their calves [...].
    • Analysts and opinion polls had forecast losses for the ANC but a pivotal factor in the party’s staggering decline was former President Jacob Zuma and his newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, which capitalized on widespread discontent within the ANC’s traditional voter base.
  • 2

    A longing for better times or circumstances.

    • Now is the winter of our diſcontent, / Made glorious ſummer by this ſonne of Yorke: / And all the cloudes that lowrd vpon our houſe, / In the deepe boſome of the Ocean buried.
    • Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
  • 3

    A discontented person; a malcontent.

discontentverb/ˌdɪskənˈtɛnt/

  • 1

    To deprive of contentment; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy.

discontentadj/ˌdɪskənˈtɛnt/

  • 1

    Not content; discontented; dissatisfied.

    • [...] Paſſion seemed to be much diſcontent, but Patience was very quiet. Then Chriſtian aſked, What is the reaſon of the diſcontent of Paſſion.

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