(-ies, -ied)with obj.
1- make (something needed or wanted) available to someone; provide供应; 提供：
the farm supplies apples to cider makers.
该农场向苹果酒制造商供应苹果。
1.1
- provide (someone) with something needed or wanted提供援助：
they struggled to supply the besieged island with aircraft.
他们竭力向被围困的岛屿提供飞机。
1.2
- be a source of (something needed)成为…的源泉：
eat foods which supply a significant amount of dietary fibre.
食用能提供大量饮食纤维素的食物。
1.3
- be adequate to satisfy (a requirement or demand)满足要求（或需要）：
the two reservoirs supply about 1% of the city's needs.
这两个水库能满足这座城市约1%的用水量。
1.4
- archaic take over (a place or role left by someone else)〈古〉取代; 填补：
when she died, no one could supply her place.
她死后, 没人能填补她的位置。
(pl. -ies)
1- a stock of a resource from which a person or place can be provided with the necessary amount of that resource供应量, 贮备量：
there were fears that the drought would limit the exhibition's water supply.
有人担心干旱会使展览会的水源供应受到限制。
1.1
- mass noun the action of providing what is needed or wanted供应, 补给：
the deal involved the supply of forty fighter aircraft.
这笔交易涉及供应40架战斗机。
1.2
- mass noun Economics the amount of a good or service offered for sale【经济】供应量。
1.3
supplies
the provisions and equipment necessary for an army or for people engaged in a particular project or expedition（军队或从事特定项目或远征人的）口粮和装备; 补给品。
1.4
supplies
Brit. a grant of money by Parliament for the costs of government〈英〉议会拨给政府作开支的款项。
1.5
- usu. as modifier a person, especially a schoolteacher, acting as a temporary substitute for another临时替代者（尤指代课教师）。
1.6
- as modifier providing necessary goods and equipment（必需的货物和装备的）供应, 补给：
a supply ship.
补给船。
短语
in short supply
- not easily obtainable; scarce供应不足, 短缺：
he meant to go, but time and petrol were in short supply.
他想要走, 但时间和汽油都不够了。
on supply
- (of a schoolteacher) acting as a temporary substitute for another（学校教师）代课。
supply and demand
- the amount of a good or service available and the desire of buyers for it, considered as factors regulating its price（商品, 服务的）供应与需求, 供求：
by the law of supply and demand the cost of health care will plummet.
根据供求关系定律, 保健费用将会骤降。
派生词
supplier
noun词源
late Middle English: from Old French soupleer, from Latin supplere 'fill up', from sub- 'from below' + plere 'fill'. The early sense of the noun was 'assistance, relief' (chiefly a Scots use).