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

• 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 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。
• After her death, this portrait came into my keeping for a few days and the likeness was so striking that it has helped me to furnish details for which memory alone might not have sufficed.
  在她去世以后，有几天，这幅画在我手里。这幅画画得跟真人一样，它弥补了我记忆力的不足。
• After many days, when time sufficed for the people to arrange their thoughts in reference to the foregoing scene, there was more than one account of what had been witnessed on the scaffold.
  过了许多天，人们总算有了充分的时间来调整有关那件事的看法，于是对于他们所看到的刑台上的情景就有了多种说法。
• 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。
• To have believed him for a single moment would have sufficed to fill a man of conscience with remorse and shame for the rest of his life.
  只要稍有一点相信他的话就足以使有良心的人终生悔恨、羞惭。
• As three days in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had sufficed to clothe her with beauty.
  正如在四月里一样，三天的时间足使某些树木花开满枝，六个月已同样够使她周身秀美了。
• 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。”
• These tactics might have sufficed at Fulham, but then Hodgson has often appeared dumbfounded by the level of expectation at Anfield.
  这些策略可能足以在富勒姆，但随后往往出现霍奇森所期望的水平在安菲尔德傻眼了。
• The whole of this conversation was such a shock that, coming as it did after all the other worry of the past week, it sufficed to induce a deep gloom and moral revulsion in hurstwood.
  整个谈话使得赫斯渥大为震惊。刚刚经历了上个星斯的种种焦虑，又碰上这么一番谈话。震惊之余，他心里不由得产生了一种深深的忧虑和对道德的反感。