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

• 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；
• A quick look at medical history would have sufficed to understand that infectious diseases have accompanied humans ever since they opted for a sedentary lifestyle.
  匆匆浏览一下人类的病史就能完全理解，自人类选择了静态生活方式以后传染病一直陪伴着人类。
• Their immediate posterity, the generation next to the early emigrants, wore the blackest shade of Puritanism, and so darkened the national visage with it, that all the subsequent years have not sufficed to clear it up.
  早期移民的子嗣，也就是他们的下一代后人，受清教主义阴影笼罩最深，从而使国家的形象黯淡无光，以致在随后的多年中都不足以清洗干净。
• Many skeptical progressives refuse to agree that the foregoing reform sufficed.
  许多持怀疑态度的进步分子认为，上述改革是不够的。
• It was, moreover, a separate and insulated event, to occur but once in her lifetime, and to meet which, therefore, reckless of economy, she might call up the vital strength that would have sufficed for many quiet years.
  更主要的，那是在她一生中独一无二的一次各别的孤立事件，因此她可以不借调动在平静的岁月中足够多年消耗的生命力去应付一时之需。
• 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。
• This inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning between the two situations and the two men.
  所处情况的不同使得这一秘密的即将开始的两种地位和两个人之间的决斗将对冉阿让有利。
• He did not raise his to her often: a quick glance now and then sufficed; but it flashed back, each time more confidently, the undisguised delight he drank from hers.
  他不大抬眼看她，只是时不时地很快地瞥一眼。可是这种偷看，每一次都带回他从她眼中所汲取的那种毫不掩饰的喜悦，越来越满不在乎了。
• 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。”
• Some friends'invitation on the purpose of washing my trip dust turn my days in unemployment sufficed and occupied.
  一些朋友的邀请使我待业的日子变得精神富足和充实。