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

• Help produce saliva and slake thirst.
  生津止渴。
• 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。
• I slaked my thirst with three cans of Coke.
  我喝了3罐可乐解渴。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But it seems unlikely even they could slake the thirst.
  但看起来仍将无法满足全部需求。
• 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。