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

• The drink helps produce saliva and slake thirst, and keeps you a cool head and refreshment. Once tried, yearn forever.
  本饮品生津止渴，提神醒脑，一经品尝，终生爱之。
• 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。
• Naturally, this did not slake Schleicher's thirst of power.
  自然这并没有满足施莱歇对权力的渴望。
• They post slake internet video to the young man prepared to kill themselves for their faith.
  他们把这些事件的录像邮寄给那些准备为了信仰而献身的年轻人们。
• Economic crime is a momentous society negative factor which disturbing, destroying and obstructing socioeconomic development, for a variety of reasons, it is difficult to slake and change in the short run, this thereby decided the conditions which creat economic crime.
  经济犯罪活动是干扰、破坏和阻碍社会经济发展的一个重大社会消极因素，由于种种原因和条件在短期内难以消除和改变，从而决定了经济犯罪现象的长期存在。
• We had to slake ourselves with rainwater in the desert.
  在沙漠中我们不得不用雨水解渴。
• Its strategy of rolling out its trademark fizzy drink round the world to slake the thirst of upwardly mobile consumers in emerging markets had run out of steam.
  该公司在全球大力推广其标志性的碳酸饮料、以满足新兴市场日益增长的消费者需求的战略已失去动力。
• Nothing can slake his anger.
  无事可平息他的怒气。
• But it seems unlikely even they could slake the thirst.
  但看起来仍将无法满足全部需求。
• 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。