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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Nothing can slake his anger.
  无事可平息他的怒气。
• China has a huge thirst for energy that it will slake from as many wells as it can, with planned big increases in wind power and in gas as well as the nuclear build-out and ever more coal-fired plants.
  中国对能源的需求如饥似渴，能兴建多少油井就兴建多少，满足自己的欲望，中国计划大幅度提高风力，天然气发电，扩建核电厂并且兴建更多的火力发电厂。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• For the complex composition and special structure, generally soft rock of red beds may slake which often lead to geological disaster.
  红层软岩因成分复杂和结构特殊而普遍具有崩解性，常常引发地质灾害。