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

• 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。
• In some cases compulsory habit alone has sufficed to produce inherited mental changes.
  在某些情况下，虽只是强制的习惯，已足以产生遗传的心理变迁。
• 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。
• But this unexpected, unhoped-for, unheard-of fortune sufficed you no longer when you once possessed it.
  但当你获得了那笔意想不到的，闻所未闻的意外之财的时候，你又觉得不够了。
• 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。
• Almost any kind of a shelter sufficed for the man who came to make his stake and leave again.
  对于一个来这儿挣了钱就走的人来说，只要能遮风避雨，几乎任何住所都行。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。