sufficed

英 [səˈfaɪst]

美 [səˈfaɪst]

v.  足够; 足以
suffice的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 足够;充足
  If you say that something willsuffice, you mean it will be enough to achieve a purpose or to fulfil a need.
  1. A cover letter should never exceed one page; often a far shorter letter will suffice.
     附信不应超过一页，通常来说，一封相对非常简短的信就足够了。
• PHRASE (用于句首)无须多说，只需说…就够了
  Suffice it to sayorsuffice to sayis used at the beginning of a statement to indicate that what you are saying is obvious, or that you will only give a short explanation.
  1. Suffice it to say that afterwards we never met again...
     简单地说，此后我们再也没有见过面。
  2. Suffice to say, it was more than a couple of years ago!
     我只想说，那是几年前的事了！

双语例句

• All that Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz was a little more rain, and a cloud traversing the sky out of season sufficed to make a world crumble.
  上天只须借几滴雨水，便可使滑铁卢成为奥斯特里茨的末日，一片薄云违反了时令的风向穿过天空，便足使一个世界崩溃。
• It sufficed for us two.
  我们两个人，日子还过得去。
• This is not entirely true, as some humans are gifted in many ways, but genetics is likely to emphasize one skill or the other as this sufficed to get the specimen to live long enough to procreate.
  但这不完全正确，因为有些人在很多方面具有天赋，但基因有可能强调某一方面的技能，因为这样足以获得样本，并活到生育子女。
• But this sufficed for Jacopo, who instinctively felt that Edmond had a right to superiority of position& a superiority which Edmond had concealed from all others.
  他已经本能地觉察到了爱德蒙的卓越，那是一种别人都没有觉察到的卓越；
• Some insiders indicated that "Katherine Jackson the husband who sufficed has been created a scene, his behavior, let her and Jackson's family, felt that lost face."
  有知情人就表示，“凯瑟琳杰克逊受够的丈夫的无理取闹了，他的行为，让她和杰克逊的家族，都感到丢脸。”
• Westerner: Good meal for once a day is sufficed.
  西方人一日三餐有一餐吃得好即可；
• Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri's miserere in the Sixtine Chapel, had filled her heart and sufficed for the quantity of passion which existed in her.
  苏丹，她的猫，一只能在西斯廷教堂咪嗷咪嗷歌唱阿列格利所作《上帝怜我》诗篇的老雄猫，已经充满了她的心，也满足了她身上那点热情。
• This simple man sufficed for Cosette's thought, the same as the wild garden sufficed for her eyes.
  这个淳朴的人能使珂赛特的思想感到满足，正如这个荒园在游戏方面使她满意一样。
• The pronunciation of a few words, the name, no doubt, which her husband had whispered in her ear, had sufficed to rouse this huge, somnolent woman, and from being repulsive she became terrible.
  这痴肥疲软的女人，经她丈夫在耳边说了几个字，大致是个什么人的名字，便立即醒觉过来，从丑陋可憎变成狰狞可怕了。
• I would have thought a good old-fashioned paper ticket that is punched would have sufficed since the card was used exactly once – at the entrance!
  我觉得一张质量良好的传统纸质打孔门票就足够了，因为这张卡就只在入口处用了一次！