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

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