| 单词 | comfortable |
| 释义 | com·fort·able I. 1. a. < her presence warmed the atmosphere … she herself was a most comfortable little person — Willa Cather > < for God's sake speak comfortable words — Shakespeare > b. obsolete c. < comfortable religious contemplation > 2. < sooner than she could have supposed it possible … her spirits became absolutely comfortable — Jane Austen > 3. a. < a comfortable fit > < a comfortable summer suit > < a more comfortable automobile > < comfortable houses set in spacious grounds — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > < a makeshift arrangement not altogether … comfortable for either of us — Havelock Ellis > b. < the home team had a comfortable 7 to 1 lead in the eighth > < irregular war was … more exhausting than service in the comfortable imitative obedience of an ordered army — T.E.Lawrence > < comfortable compromises — V.L.Parrington > < the world will probably keep on getting better and better, which is a very nice comfortable thought — Atlantic Monthly > c. < retiring on a comfortable income > < in comfortable circumstances by reason of prize money — C.O.Paullin > 4. a. < making himself comfortable in an armchair > < treatment by which the person with hay fever may be made more comfortable — Morris Fishbein > b. < comfortable in his allegiance to his king > < Lamb was comfortable in his ignorance of what he did not choose to know — John Mason Brown > c. < a comfortable, though by no means affluent family — Times Literary Supplement > Synonyms: < “I fear I should not be happy in that company …” “Then I give in. Do whatever will be most comfortable to yourself” — Thomas Hardy > < “Thank God for colonels”, thought Mrs. Miniver; “sweet creatures, so easily entertained, so biddably diverted from senseless controversy into comfortable monologue” — Jan Struther > cozy suggests warmth, shelter, and ease, and hints tranquillity and friendliness < Wimsey gratefully took in the cozy sitting room, with its little tables crowded with ornaments, its fire roaring behind a chaste canopy of velvet overmantel — Dorothy Sayers > snug indicates secure and assured warmth and comfort usually in compact quarters < Lady D. will find us in rather a smaller house than we are accustomed to receive our friends in, but it's snug — W.M.Thackeray > easy implies absence of anything likely to cause physical, social, or mental discomfort < there's a pleasant feel in being gently … pinioned fast to the easy armchair — Robert Browning > restful, applicable to indoor and outdoor situations, and the less common reposeful apply to whatever induces rest or repose < a restful, friendly room, fitted to the uses of gentle life, covered, when it must be covered, with beauty — Mary Austin > < I … drank in deep, calm gladness from the sweet, restful scene — the gray old church with its clustering ivy and its quaint carved wooden porch, the white lane winding down the hill between tall rows of elms — J.K.Jerome > < the secretary's office, which his wife endowed with ship's lamps, ship's bells, crossed naval swords, and a generally reposeful colonial decor — Time > comfortable, cozy, snug, and easy may all describe an assured financial position. In reference to persons, comfortable, cozy, and snug may indicate mere absence of discomfort or, more positively, a pleasant, relaxed, warm, contented feeling < we found the doctor and Zeke making themselves comfortable. The latter was reclining on the ground, pipe in mouth — Herman Melville > < Mrs. Carewe, faced with impecunious widowhood, had successfully daydreamed herself right out of bleak reality into cozy semiinvalidism — Edna Ferber > < there must be no open windows or drafty cracks to disturb his cozy reflections — M.R.Cohen > < ere that the fisherfolk were all snug under thatch and sheltering wall, breathing the cabin's air of gold, safe from blue storm and nipping cold — G.W.Russell > < all the gypsies and showmen who had remained on the ground lay snug within their carts and tents — Thomas Hardy > II. 1. chiefly Britain 2. chiefly Britain 3. chiefly North |
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