suffice
verb [intransitive] (formal)Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they suffice | |
| he / she / it suffices | |
| past simple sufficed | |
| past participle sufficed | |
| past simple sufficing | |
| past participle sufficing |
to be enough for somebody/something 足够；足以 Generally a brief note or a phone call will suffice. 通常写个便条或打个电话就足够了。 - suffice to do something
One example will suffice to illustrate the point. 举一个例子就足以说明这一点。
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French suffis-, stem of suffire, from Latin sufficere ‘put under, meet the need of’, from sub- ‘under’ + facere ‘make’.
Idioms
suffice (it) to say (that)…
used to suggest that although you could say more, what you do say will be enough to explain what you mean 无须多说；只需说…就够了 I won’t go into all the details. Suffice it to say that the whole event was a complete disaster. 我就不详细说了。可以说整个事件是一场彻底的灾难。