Suffice
[sə'faɪs]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity; 'A few words would answer'; 'This car suits my purpose well'; 'Will $100 do?'; 'A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school'; 'Nothing else will serve'.
多拉編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.
(v. t.) To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
(v. t.) To furnish; to supply adequately.
手打:洛葛仙妮
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Be enough, be sufficient.
v. a. Satisfy, content, be enough for.
阿曼达錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Satisfy, content, be_enough,[See AFFLICTION]
黛尔編輯
解釋/意思:
v.i. to be enough: to be equal to the end in view.—v.t. to satisfy.—n. Suffi′ciency state of being sufficient: competence: ability: capacity: conceit.—adj. Suffi′cient sufficing: enough: equal to any end or purpose: competent.—adv. Suffi′ciently.—n. Suf′fisance (Spens.) sufficiency.
錄入:尼科尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Let it suffice h ere to state that Rutherford assumes that the greater mass of the atom consis ts o f negatively charged particles rotating about a positive nucle us. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Any room in this house might suffice. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Suffice it to say that when Edison went boldly out into new territory, after something entirely unknown, he was quite prepared for hard work and exploration. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- In that case the steady pull on the balance will be one half the weight of the roller; or a force of 6 pounds will suffice to raise the 12-pound roller. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I urged my companions to prepare for the wreck of our little skiff, and to bind themselves to some oar or spar which might suffice to float them. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- What her thoughts were I did not know, for as yet I had learned but little of the Martian tongue; enough only to suffice for my daily needs. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Suffice it to say that Cr?sus made a defensive alliance both with the Lacedemonians and the Egyptians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But in the better grades of material the printing is well done, and the color designs are fairly fast, and a little care in the laundry suffices to eliminate any danger of fading. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The attachment of a very few suffices me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- For decorations already painted it suffices to apply it to the back and wooden frames. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- The feeblest imaginable current suffices to deflect the needle in one direction, which throws back the little beam of light upon it to the graduated front of the scale. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- We not only turn our view to it, when actuated by that appetite; but the reflecting on it suffices to excite the appetite. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- This suffices to satisfy the imagination, and proves there is no repugnance in such a motion. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- That is, when the roller weighs 12, a force of 3 suffices to raise it to the height _A_ along the incline; but the smaller force must be applied throughout the entire length of the incline. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Himself has hitherto sufficed to the toil, and the toil draws near its close: his glorious sun hastens to its setting. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The interruption was not unseasonable: sufficient for the day is always the evil; for this hour, its good sufficed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- A very brief exercise of Mr. Sike's art, sufficed to overcome the fastening of the lattice; and it soon stood wide open also. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- But few words sufficed to tell Laura and Marian how my desperate venture had ended, and what the next event in our lives was likely to be. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The very first interchange of slight observations sufficed to give each an idea of what the other was. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- A few years ago it had sufficed her: she had taken her daily meed of pleasure without caring who provided it. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- He was a quick and powerful reasoner; and a moment's reflection sufficed to remind him of the impotency of his rage. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The State is all-sufficing for the wants of man, and, like the idea of the Church in later ages, absorbs all other desires and affections. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The more purely mental it is, the more independent or self-sufficing is it. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Again, experience always involved lack, need, desire; it was never self-sufficing. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- As I said before, I was sitting near the stove, let into the wall beneath the refectory and the carré, and thus sufficing to heat both apartments. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- A State, I said, arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- What he did was accomplished with the ease and grace of all-sufficing strength; with the bountiful cheerfulness of high and unbroken energies. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I see her confessing that she was not so self-sufficing, so independent of sympathy, as people thought. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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