Sufficiency
[sə'fɪʃ(ə)nsɪ] or [sə'fɪʃnsi]
解释:
(noun.) the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; 'he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence'.
(noun.) sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations; 'her father questioned the young suitor's sufficiency'.
布兰得利整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end proposed; adequacy.
(n.) Qualification for any purpose; ability; capacity.
(n.) Adequate substance or means; competence.
(n.) Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund.
(n.) Conceit; self-confidence; self-sufficiency.
杰里米整理
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Adequacy, enough, competence, plenty, ample supply.[2]. Ability, qualification, capacity.
埃尔默编辑
同义词及反义词:
[See SATISFY]
手打:玛里琳
例句:
- She envied them some spontaneity, a childish sufficiency to which she herself could never approach. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- It was a lack of robust self, she had no natural sufficiency, there was a terrible void, a lack, a deficiency of being within her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Their food, as I afterwards found, was coarse, but it was wholesome; and they procured a sufficiency of it. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- In the worst seasons they have always had a sufficiency for themselves, though less for exportation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Mrs. Norris, being not at all inclined to question its sufficiency, began to take the matter in another point. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- The scheme was put into working order at once, and a sufficiency of provisions was made ready for the adventurers. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Their sufficiency decreased with knowledge, they wanted more. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- But the Popes during their centuries of power were always raging against the slightest reflection upon the intellectual sufficiency of the church. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- They might have been exciting, however, if we had chosen to drink a sufficiency of them. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- She had a perfect calm sufficiency, an easy indifference to any criticism whatsoever, as if she were beyond it. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- In those good old times, it was a regular household care to provide a sufficiency of tinder, to see that it was kept dry, and that there was a proper flint with fire in it. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- He went quickly along towards Shortlands, in a grateful self-sufficiency. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
校对:鲁本