suffice

1.认识这个词(基础篇)

词:suffice

英英释义:to be enough

例句:Good ideas alone do not suffice.

2. 体会这个词 (进阶篇)

“suffice”是“sufficient”(足够的)的动词形式,是个不及物动词,可以使我们的表达更加简洁有力。当我们想表示“足够”或者“不足够”的时候,除了用 sufficient, enough 外,也要想到可以用动词 suffice 表示。

比如如果你刚刚开始跑步,先跑上 10 分钟,然后做些伸展运动就可以了:

For beginning runners, a 10-minute jog and a few stretches will suffice.

只读万卷书也是不够的,我们还要付诸于实践。这时就可以说:

Extensive reading alone does not suffice. We have to, too, put what we read into practice.

我们在举例的时候,想表达“只用一个/两个例子就可以说明某事”时,也会用到 suffice。比如我们想说,只用马云的例子就可以证明颜值和财富并没有很大关系,就可以这样用 suffice:

A single example will suffice: Jack Ma.


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有一个疑问待解决:

什么时候用助动词do,什么时候用一般将来时will?


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2[PHRASE 短语] (用于句首)无须多说,只需说…就够了;Suffice it to say or suffice to say is used at the beginning of a statement to indicate that what you are saying is obvious, or that you will only give a short explanation. [PHR that]

Suffice it to say that afterwards we never met again...

简单地说,此后我们再也没有见过面。


Suffice to say, it was more than a couple of years ago!

我只想说,那是几年前的事了!

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