1Meet the expectations, needs, or desires of (someone)

我对我的工作从来没有满意过。

80年代所承诺的财富没有使人们满足。

1. 1.1 Fulfill (a desire or need)
   满足（欲望，需要）
   social services is trying to satisfy the needs of so many different groups

   社会服务部门正努力满足许多不同群体的需要。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Consumers are motivated by the desire to satisfy complex needs, and these should be the starting-point for all marketing activity.
   • Seasoned preceptors can teach, express their feelings about a given situation, and satisfy their need to demonstrate their knowledge by telling stories.
   • I think he initially did it for the thrill or to satisfy some inner need of his own, but then there was so much media attention, that he was actually seduced into the cat and mouse game.
   • How will you ensure that those desires or needs are satisfied?
   • Providing significant teaching experience is probably not realistic in most departments because there are not enough courses to satisfy the needs of all students.
   • The university that you are attending is virtually one of the best in the nation in terms of satisfying the needs of students from a wide variety of cultures and interests.
   • Maslow believed that higher level needs will only emerge when lower level needs are satisfied.
   • Join the real humanitarians as we strive to satisfy the needs and wants of every individual in the world.
   • They were there to serve him and satisfy his needs and whims.
   • You can give orders all day long, but it's really a matter of providing leadership, of giving the company a vision, of implementing a strategy that satisfies the needs of the customer and the shareholders as well, too.
   • Mutual fund companies are fiduciaries, meaning their top priority is to fulfill their responsibilities to others, not satisfy their own needs.
   • God is just in peoples heads, an illusion made to satisfy their needs for direction in life.
   • To optimize these decisions, business managers need to know their customers' requirements and seek to satisfy their needs and desires.
   • An executive search firm is focused on satisfying the client's needs.
   • It didn't take long to satisfy his shopping needs and so we had plenty of time to find me a few new outfits.
   • She stresses the importance of protein in diets to stop cravings and satisfy the body's need for nourishment.
   • And just to satisfy your need for instant gratification, turn to page 40 to find six quick meals you can fix in no time.
   • How will indigenous Amazonians both use the resources of their territories to satisfy their current needs and conserve them for future generations?
   • The show also pretends that girlfriends can satisfy your need for a family, should you not find a suitable husband.
   • They perform behaviors that keep them safe from danger, reduce stress or anxiety, or satisfy some other need or desire.

   Synonyms

   fulfil, gratify, meet, fill, serve, provide for, supply
2. 1.2 Provide (someone) with adequate information or proof so that they are convinced about something.
   使确信，向…证实
   with object and clause people need to be satisfied that the environmental assessments are accurate

   需要使人们相信对环境的评估是准确的。

   the chief engineer satisfied himself that it was not a weapon

   总工程师确信这不是一件武器。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • I am satisfied that Mr Baird had an adequate opportunity to examine the boat.
   • The soldiers satisfied themselves that there were no more of the enemy around, and sat down behind the crates.
   • The architect should certainly not have given any of the certificates to which I have referred until he had satisfied himself that the overflows were there.
   • I am also satisfied that the vendor provided the survey and made all reasonable repairs.
   • By the end he has made some connection between poetry and life and satisfied himself that he needn't choose one over the other.
   • Mr Jeans' submissions were forceful and persuasive, but I am not satisfied that they were right.
   • Where the court is satisfied that the petition debt has been paid, secured or compounded for, the court is precluded from making a bankruptcy order on the petition.
   • I am also satisfied that the prosecution still have to obtain information which is relevant and important information relating to the cheques.
   • We are satisfied that by acting in this way the judge provided the necessary safeguard to protect the possible interests of the appellant.
   • I am not satisfied to the appropriate standard of proof that this appellant is of Eritrean ethnicity.
   • I am not satisfied that he has discharged the burden of proof upon him.
   • Having satisfied herself that he was alone, she continued over to the well.
   • Provided he is satisfied that the conduct appears to constitute an extradition crime he is entitled to make an order to proceed.
   • As a result I am satisfied that there is a need for a site to provide accommodation for them.
   • Provided you are satisfied that the market has undervalued that business, thank your lucky stars for the golden buying opportunity.
   • You may be refused support on the basis that you have given inadequate information to satisfy the Secretary of State that you made your asylum claim as soon as practicable after arrival in the UK.
   • The claimants have satisfied me that Mr Steele did not receive an adequate explanation before the 3rd August.
   • I am satisfied to the criminal standard of proof that the wife wilfully breached the orders in question and I find her to be in contempt of those orders.
   • I am satisfied that adequate enquiries were made regarding your application and the content of the decision letter was correct.
   • In this case, we were satisfied that the information supported its use.
   • Lending institutions will be required to satisfy themselves that the borrowers already have 10 per cent of the total price.

   Synonyms

   convince, persuade, assure, make certain
3. 1.3 Adequately meet or comply with (a condition, obligation, or demand)
   符合，达到（条件、义务或要求）
   the whole team is working to satisfy demand

   整个小组正竭尽全力达到要求。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • In response, web servers must evolve to satisfy these demands.
   • A servant's use of his private car for transport during the course of his duties does not satisfy the conditions set out above.
   • There is enough gold in the vaults of central banks to satisfy world demand for 10 years without another ounce being mined!
   • Although there will be enough capacity to satisfy demand next year, the excess of capacity over consumption will begin to shrink.
   • Whether it would be sufficient to satisfy extraordinary demands such as those of national defense in today's world is, of course, quite another story.
   • Financial engineering provides the capability to craft any type of security or any instrument to satisfy the demand of would be speculators or investors.
   • The administration walked a political and social tightrope as it tried to satisfy the conflicting demands of all these constituencies.
   • The Napoleonic Wars would end in 1815 and with the favourable British colonial preference laws, whiskey could be transported over seas to help satisfy this new demand.
   • The law didn't satisfy the demand for bodies: there weren't nearly enough condemned murderers to go around.
   • The Monegasque government has had to find innovative ways to satisfy the demand for construction: the use of land reclaimed from the sea.
   • Many evangelicals say they're just trying to satisfy demands not met by traditional churches.
   • To satisfy the domestic demand, raw materials, capital goods and other high-value products will, without doubt, be imported on a large scale.
   • This is an example of businesses reacting to industry conditions and satisfying market demand with supply.
   • Decentralizing measures introduced to satisfy local demands may lead to macroeconomic instability if fiscal imprudence by subnational entities is not vigorously disciplined.
   • Art isn't interesting when it is made to satisfy the demands of the market.
   • It is a pleasure to note that despite his concise format, Chew's work may be the first to satisfy the demands for documentation that historians typically make of books they use.
   • There is increasingly rapid transport of seafood to the nation's interior to satisfy Spaniards' high demand for quality fresh fish and shellfish.
   • Both conditions were ultimately satisfied and the transaction was completed in February 2001.
   • But dominating his last five years was his work for the theatre, satisfying the demand for music in plays and ‘semi-operas’.
   • They would be hard pressed to manufacture enough to satisfy demand, let alone research a new version of the item.

   Synonyms

   comply with, meet, fulfil, answer, conform to
4. 1.4Mathematics (of a quantity) make (an equation) true.
   〔数〕解
   Example sentencesExamples

   • This equation is satisfied by y= cx+ c2- c.
   • Why do we get so many possible solutions that all satisfy the same differential equation?
5. 1.5 Pay off (a debt or creditor)
   清偿，偿付
   there was insufficient collateral to satisfy the loan

   担保品不足以偿付贷款。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • It was the applicant's choice to obtain the loan to satisfy some of his creditors.
   • So far, the car manufacturer has managed to cut only 2,400 jobs, largely through voluntary redundancies and this is not enough to satisfy its creditors.
   • Given the sums that they had borrowed from shopkeepers and moneylenders at high interest rates, tenants were unable to satisfy both their creditors in the towns and their landlords.
   • He wants to carry out social reforms, but he has to keep public finances in order to satisfy international creditors.
   • Even if a share of the cash value of the equity is protected, this does not prevent the creditors from demanding that the home be sold so that the remaining share can be realized to go towards satisfying the debt.
   • It also appears that his shares are going to be woefully inadequate to satisfy his creditors.
   • In the spring of 1997 he and Coleman devised a private plan to satisfy his creditors.
   • The case itself involved a claim by the executor of an estate to retain part of a legacy due to a legatee sufficient to satisfy a debt due by the legatee to the estate.
   • The shareholders have no claim, on a winding-up, to the return of their contributions to the company until all the creditors' claims have been satisfied.
   • The accounts are titled in the name of the person responsible for satisfying the tuition debt.
   • The pledge confers on the creditor a right to sell the chattel involved and to satisfy the debt from the proceeds.
   • Two million acres of Creek land was given to the new colony of Georgia so it could be sold to satisfy debts to British traders.
   • Will the company continue to operate while it attempts to restructure to satisfy creditors?
   • Once the liquidator has realised all the company's assets, s/he will then set about satisfying the claims made by the creditors.
   • It still needs a quarter of a million pounds to satisfy creditors.
   • That means the income from your job will be available to satisfy his debts.
   • The company will also negotiate separately with existing bondholders and intends to satisfy all other creditors.
   • Creditors may seize jointly owned assets to satisfy your spouse's debts.
   • Basically they have taken too much debt and are currently restructuring in order to satisfy their creditors.
   • A portion of their land was seized and sold to satisfy their creditors, and shortly thereafter they sold the rest of their land, apparently out of dire necessity.

   Synonyms

   repay, pay, pay off, pay in full, settle, make good, discharge, square, liquidate, clear