You can picture things falling into place around you: the shop is on your way home, the machine does the hard part, the meeting lands on a day you were free anyway. Convenience is that fit — how little the world makes you go out of your way.
From the word’s history
From Latin convenientia 'a meeting together, agreement, harmony', from convenire 'to come together; be suitable, be proper', built on com- 'together' + venire 'to come'. Things that 'come together' well are exactly what we now call convenient.
來自拉丁文 convenientia「湊到一起、相合」，動詞 convenire 是 com-「一起」＋ venire「來」，意思是「走到一起、正好合適」。所以這個字骨子裡講的是「合得上」：時間合得上、東西合得上你的需要。理解這一點，at your convenience（你方便的時候）和 marriage of convenience（為現實條件而結的婚）就都說得通了。
Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com/word/convenience
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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。
conveniencenoun/kənˈviːnɪəns/
- 1
The quality of being convenient.
- Fast food is popular because of its cost and convenience.
- Let's further think of this; / Weigh what convenience both of time and means / May fit us to our shape.
- 2
Any object that makes life more convenient; a helpful item.
- A pair of spectacles[…] and several other little conveniences.
- ...let Fanchette come in a hackney-coach in the morning, and I will direct the housekeeper to send you something of every thing—plate, candlesticks, lamps, damask—and you won't take it amiss if we should happen to have game or poultry come up that I put that amongst the conveniences;...
- 3
A convenient time.
- We will come over and begin the work at your convenience.
convenienceverb/kənˈviːnɪəns/
- 1
To make convenient.
- These are equally viable times and I propose we alternate between the two times in order to convenience as many people as possible.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- public convenience
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。