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

• We had to slake ourselves with rainwater in the desert.
  在沙漠中我们不得不用雨水解渴。
• 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。
• I slaked my thirst with three cans of Coke.
  我喝了3罐可乐解渴。
• The CBR test, slake durability test, compressing test and shearing test of the dry and wet redstone granular soil samples were respectively carried out in this paper.
  本文对风干的红砂岩粗粒土及饱水红砂岩粗粒土路堤填料进行了CBR试验、耐崩解试验、压缩试验和剪切试验。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The systematic desensitization, as basic way of behavior thereby, helps get rid of and slake the anxiety.
  采用系统脱敏法能降低和消除焦虑情绪。