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

• 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。
• 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。
• Half a dozen sufficed him.
  半打就使他满足了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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。