词族 · slake
中文词源
slake 消除，平息，缓和
来自古英语 slacian,使无力，使懈怠，使缓慢，词源同 slack.引申比喻义消除，平息，缓和等。
英语词源
- 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.
权威例句
- 1. Naturally, this did not slake Schleicher's thirst of power.
- 自然这并没有满足施莱歇对权力的渴望.
- 2. Fair words slake wrath; fair words hurt not the mouth.
- 好言好语息人怒; 说好话于己无损.
- 3. We had to slake ourselves with rainwater in the desert.
- 在沙漠中我们不得不用雨水解渴.
- 4. Nothing can slake his anger.
- 无事可平息他的怒气.
- 5. Fair words slake wrath.
- 甜言美语三冬暖.