slake

• vt. 消除；熄滅；使清涼
• vi. （石灰）熟化；消除；平息

來自古英語 slacian,使無力，使懈怠，使緩慢，詞源同 slack.引申比喻義消除，平息，緩和等。

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.

1. Naturally, this did not slake Schleicher's thirst of power.

自然這並沒有滿足施萊歇對權力的渴望.

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2. Fair words slake wrath; fair words hurt not the mouth.

好言好語息人怒; 說好話於己無損.

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3. We had to slake ourselves with rainwater in the desert.

在沙漠中我們不得不用雨水解渴.

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4. Nothing can slake his anger.

無事可平息他的怒氣.

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5. Fair words slake wrath.

甜言美語三冬暖.

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