douse
单词辨析：
指熄灭火、香烟、灯光等。
Please extinguish the cigarette.
请熄灭香烟。
The firemen tried hard to extinguish the fire.
消防队员竭尽全力扑灭大火。
Faint smoke came from the extinguished candle.
熄灭的蜡烛冒出缕缕轻烟。
指用水等把火泼灭。
Rain poured down and doused the fire.
大雨倾盆，浇灭了大火。
Tom doused the flames with a fire extinguisher.
汤姆用灭火器把火焰扑灭。
指用水或其他方法灭火，含抑制之意。
Water will quench a fire.
水可以灭火。
The fire was quenched with a bucket of water.
火被一桶水浇灭了。
相关例句：
Pragmatism in foreign policy began to douse ideology as China encouraged the going-global strategy in search of energy security, materials and new markets.
实用主义开始在外交政策上占据主导地位，中国鼓励走出去寻求能源安全、材料和新的市场的全球战略。
In order to make themselves and their homes less inviting to these wayward spirits, the ancient Celts would douse all their fires.
为了让他们自己和他们的家不要收到这些任性的鬼魂的骚扰，古老的凯尔特人弄熄他们所有的火。
The pumps were started and the crew began to douse the fire with water.
水泵开动了，消防队员们开始用水灭火。
I doused the headlights and got out.
我灭了车前灯后下了车。
Tokyo residents started the day viewing images of Japanese military helicopters trying to douse overheating reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant with large buckets of seawater.
日本首都东京的居民今天一早看到的画面是，日本军用直升机试图把大桶海水洒到福岛核电站过热的反应堆上，以求为其降温。
I'm not here to massage your ego, I'm giving you your daily douse of logic.
我不是在折磨你的意思，我只是给你一个合适的逻辑观。