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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In fact, to get Wurmser, it sufficed to blanch the hair of Wellington.
  的确，要打败维尔姆泽，只需使威灵顿的头发变白就是了。