slake
slake 英 [sleɪk] 美 [slek]
vt. 消除；熄灭；使清凉；满足 vi. （石灰）熟化；消除；平息
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- When you slake something, such as a desire or a thirst, you satisfy it. A big glass of lemonade on a hot summer day will slake your thirst.
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- vt. 消除；熄灭；使清凉；满足
- vi. （石灰）熟化；消除；平息
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1. 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。
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2. I shall not seek a well to slake the burning thirst of my heart.
我不会找一口井来消除内心强烈的渴望。
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3. 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。
- slake (v.) late Old English sleacian, slacian "become slack or remiss; slacken an effort" (intransitive); "delay, retard" (transitive), from slæc "lax" (see slack (adj.)). Transitive sense of "make slack" is from late 12c. Sense of "allay, diminish in force, quench, extinguish" (in reference to thirst, hunger, desire, wrath, etc.) first recorded early 14c. via notion of "make slack or inactive." Related: Slaked; slaking.
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