英语释义
1. put out, extinguish
2. to put out the light or fire of
quench glowing coals with water
3. to cool (something, such as heated metal) suddenly by immersion (as in oil or water)
4. to cause to lose heat or warmth
you have quenched the warmth of France toward you
— Alfred Tennyson
5. to bring (something immaterial) to an end typically by satisfying, damping, cooling, or decreasing
a rational understanding of the laws of nature can quench impossible desires
— Lucius Garvin the praise that quenches all desire to read the book
— T. S. Eliot
6. to terminate by or as if by destroying eliminate
the Commonwealth party quenched a whole generation of play-acting
— Margery Bailey quench a rebellion
7. to relieve or satisfy with liquid
quenched his thirst at a wayside spring
8. to become extinguished cool
9. to become calm subside
10. to stop (a fire) from burning to put out (a fire)
11. to end by satisfying
The drink quenched my thirst.
12. to put out (as a fire)