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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• All that Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz was a little more rain, and a cloud traversing the sky out of season sufficed to make a world crumble.
  上天只须借几滴雨水，便可使滑铁卢成为奥斯特里茨的末日，一片薄云违反了时令的风向穿过天空，便足使一个世界崩溃。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。