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v. 满意，使满意，使相信，说服11 次
can hardly satisfy people’s needs.
难以满足人们的需求。
Zoos are, in that sense, similar to natural history and archaeology museums, serving to satisfy our need for contact with these living creatures while leaving the vast majority undisturbed in their natural environments.
从这个意义上说，动物园类似于自然历史博物馆和考古博物馆，既满足了我们接触这些生灵的需求，又让绝大多数动物在其自然环境中不受打扰。
And people made car-buying decisions that were both objectively better and more personally satisfying when asked to focus on their feelings rather than on details, but only if the decision was complex — when they had a lot of information to process.
而当人们被要求关注自己的感受而非细节时，他们做出的购车决定在客观上更好，个人也更满意，但这仅限于决策复杂的情况——即他们有大量信息需要处理时。
satisfy
满足
That said, there is a way in which grade forgiveness satisfies colleges’ own needs as well.
话虽如此，成绩豁免在某种程度上也满足了大学自身的需要。
They could even be harmful, satisfying a need to have "done our bit" without ever progressing onto bigger, bolder, more effective actions — a kind of "moral licensing" that eases our concerns and stops us doing more and asking more of those in charge.
它们甚至可能有害，因为它们满足了我们“已尽了自己一份力”的需要，却从未推动我们采取更大、更大胆、更有效的行动——这是一种“道德许可”，它缓解了我们的担忧，却让我们不再做更多的事，也不再对掌权者提出更多要求。
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The new research reveals that the need to know is so strong that people will [seek] to satisfy their curiosity even when it is clear the answer will [hurt].
这项新研究表明，求知的需要如此强烈，以至于即使明知答案会带来伤害，人们仍会设法满足自己的好奇心。
In a series of four experiments, behavioral scientists at the University of Chicago and the Wisconsin School of Business tested students’ willingness to [expose] themselves to unpleasant stimuli in an effort to satisfy curiosity.
在一系列共四项实验中，芝加哥大学和威斯康星商学院的行为科学家测试了学生为满足好奇心而让自己暴露于不愉快刺激之下的意愿。
satisfies the real need of the jobless.
满足了失业者的真正需求。
satisfy
满足
are less likely to be satisfied with their life.
不太可能对生活感到满意。