| 词汇 | slake |
| 释义 | slakeWord family verbslakeadjectiveslakeless slake /sleɪk/ verb [transitiveT] literary 1. slake your thirst literary DRINKto drink so that you are not thirsty anymore 解渴 Examples from the Corpus slake your thirst• We chewed salted sunflower seeds, and slaked our thirst. 2. slake a desire/craving etc literary to satisfy a desire etc 满足欲望/渴望等 Examples from the Corpus slake• The trouble was that George had a needling propensity for deception that could not be slaked.• He had managed to slake her lust.• We chewed salted sunflower seeds, and slaked our thirst.• My thirst for knowledge had been slaked, surpassed by a hunger for cash.• Dessert selections at San Remo are modest but provide ample opportunity to slake that end-of-the-meal sweet craving.• Before continuing we slaked thirsts with warm water from our own bottles - we couldn't find any streams. Old English slacian “to slacken”, from sleac; → SLACK1 |
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