slake

英 [sleɪk]

美 [sleɪk]

v.  缓和(口渴); 解(渴); 满足(欲望)

现在分词：slaking　过去分词：slaked　过去式：slaked　第三人称单数：slakes　

TOEFLGRE医学

BNC.33560 / COCA.31425

牛津词典

verb

• 缓和（口渴）；解（渴）
  to drink so that you no longer feel thirsty
• 满足（欲望）
  to satisfy a desire

柯林斯词典

• VERB 解(渴)
  If youslakeyour thirst, you drink something that stops you being thirsty.
  1. I slaked my thirst with three cans of Coke.
     我喝了 3 罐可乐解渴。

英英释义

verb

• cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
  1. slack lime
  Synonym:slack
• make less active or intense
  Synonym:abateslack
• satisfy (thirst)
  1. The cold water quenched his thirst
  Synonym:quenchallayassuage

双语例句

• Grey Correlation Analysis of Slake Durability of Red Bed Weak Rock
  红层软岩崩解性的灰色关联分析
• Nothing will slake the public's appetite for celebrity gossip.
  没有什么能满足公众对于名人八卦消息的兴趣。
• In an odd way, the fact that even the Colorado can no longer slake the thirst of metropolises such as Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Diego is testimony to the dam's success.
  现在即便是科罗拉多河也不能解决菲尼克斯、洛杉矶和圣迭戈这样的大都市的水荒，这一事实竟然以一种奇怪的方式证明了胡佛大坝的成功。
• Help produce saliva and slake thirst.
  生津止渴。
• But it seems unlikely even they could slake the thirst.
  但看起来仍将无法满足全部需求。
• Astronauts who are expected to go there in the next decade may find plenty of water to slake their thirst.
  在未来十年中，有望登陆火星的宇航员们也许会找到大量的用以解渴的水。
• Nothing can slake his anger.
  无事可平息他的怒气。
• At the field I bought several cans of pineapple juice to slake my thirst and took off with my unkempt warriors for Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands.
  在机场我先买了几罐菠罗汁解渴，之后就同我那帮稀稀拉拉的武士们一起飞往马绍尔群岛的夸贾林岛。
• I slaked my thirst with three cans of Coke.
  我喝了3罐可乐解渴。
• We had to slake ourselves with rainwater in the desert.
  在沙漠中我们不得不用雨水解渴。