SUFFICE

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Traducere în limba română

suffice verb A. intranzitiv

a ajunge, a fi de ajuns;

suffice it to say e de ajuns să spun.

suffice verb B. tranzitiv

a satisface.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

My strength sufficed for but short answers.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

A few minutes of regulating sufficed to put it on its course again, when I returned to the preparation of breakfast.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Her father never went beyond the shrubbery, where two divisions of the ground sufficed him for his long walk, or his short, as the year varied; and since Mrs. Weston's marriage her exercise had been too much confined.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I ought to have sent you an account of your cousin's first party, but I was lazy, and now it is too long ago; suffice it, that everything was just as it ought to be, in a style that any of her connexions must have been gratified to witness, and that her own dress and manners did her the greatest credit.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Little things recall us to earth; the clock struck in the hall; that sufficed; I turned from moon and stars, opened a side- door, and went in.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Several buckets of water sufficed to put out the burning mattress in the middle of the steerage floor; and ten minutes later, when the smoke had fairly cleared, I allowed Maud to come below.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

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