quench的常用短语

1. 扑灭，熄灭（火、光）
2. 使冷却，使骤冷，将（热物体）放入水中急速冷却
3. 解（渴），止（渴）
4. 压制，压倒，遏制，抑制，遏止
5. 【机、物】把...淬火，淬熄，使淬硬，淬炼
6. 迫使（反对者）住口，迫使（反对者）沉默，使无话可说
7. 熄灭
8. 平静，平息下来
9. 结束，停止，终止

1. satisfy (thirst);

   "The cold water quenched his thirst"
   

2. put out, as of fires, flames, or lights;

   "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"
   "quench the flames"
   "snuff out the candles"
   

3. electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device
4. suppress or crush completely;

   "squelch any sign of dissent"
   "quench a rebellion"
   

5. reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance
6. cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid;

   "quench steel"
   

1.解(渴)；止(渴)
If someone who is thirstyquenches theirthirst, they lose their thirst by having a drink.

e.g. He stopped toquench his thirst at a stream.
他停了下来，在小溪边饮水止渴。

1. The fire quenched.
   火熄灭了。
2. The bustle and the talking quenched.
   喧闹声与谈话声平息下来。

1. The firemen quenched the blaze.
   消防队员们扑灭了火焰。
2. He quenched the lamp and then went out.
   他熄了灯,然后出了门。
3. Water will quench a fire.
   水可以灭火。
4. He bought an icecream to quench his thirst.
   为了解渴,他买了一块冰淇淋。
5. Iced tea will quench your thirst on hot days.
   冰镇茶在热天将解除你的口渴。
6. The old man quenched his hope.
   老人绝望了。
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7. Hot steel is quenched to harden it.
   烧热的钢放入水中骤冷使之坚硬。
8. The flames of revolution can never be quenched.
   的烈火决不会被扑灭。

• His efforts to rekindle the light that Nelly had quenched.

  出自：S. Beckett

• The embers of the cooking-fires had been quenched by the rain.

  出自：N. Gordimer

1. quench的基本意思是“消灭,熄灭”,指如同吹灭一支蜡烛或用水浇灭一堆火一样完全或突然结束某事,强调消灭或熄灭的原因,多用于渴望、愿望等情感方面。
2. quench可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时接名词或代词作宾语。用作不及物动词时,主动形式可表示被动意义。