Deficient
[dɪ'fɪʃ(ə)nt] or [dɪ'fɪʃnt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) inadequate in amount or degree; 'a deficient education'; 'deficient in common sense'; 'lacking in stamina'; 'tested and found wanting' .
(adj.) falling short of some prescribed norm; 'substandard housing' .
校對:蒂米--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment.
編輯:帕特里克
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Defective, insufficient, imperfect, incomplete, not full, not perfect.
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同義詞及反義詞：
[See DEFECTIVE]
埃文編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. wanting.—n. Defic′iency (sometimes Defic′ience) defect.—adv. Defic′iently.—ns. Defic′ientness; Def′icit deficiency esp. of revenue as compared with expenditure.
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例句/造句/用法:
- I never thought Mr. Darcy so deficient in the _appearance_ of it as you used to do. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- A deficient, ill-tempered, lowering, stupid fellow. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I am happy you approved, said Emma, smiling; but I hope I am not often deficient in what is due to guests at Hartfield. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- You are extremely deficient in your facts. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- She was very pretty and not, I think, deficient in natural abilities, though it is really very good of me to say so; for she could not endure me! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I am deficient in self-confidence and decision, she said at last. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She must be confident here, for God knows, she felt rejected and deficient enough elsewhere. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Bingley was by no means deficient, but Darcy was clever. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- In the Ateuchus or sacred beetle of the Egyptians, they are totally deficient. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- I hope, Marianne, continued Elinor, you do not consider him as deficient in general taste. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- How could I be so deficient in good taste? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- If he change at all he can only change for the worse, for we cannot suppose him to be deficient either in virtue or beauty. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- She was, at such crises, sadly deficient in finished manner, though she had once been at school a year. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Caddy was not at all deficient in natural affection for her mother, but mentioned this with tears as an undeniable fact, which I am afraid it was. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I always have been deficient in those qualities. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Why, it has been asked, if instinct be variable, has it not granted to the bee the ability to use some other material when wax was deficient? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- If he were deficient there, nothing should make amends for it. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- It was being very deficient. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Besides this, he was neither uneducated nor deficient. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Not to be deficient in interest, Clennam asked what he might be doing there? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It only shows her being deficient in something herself--sense or feeling. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- They will not be deficient in wit and _na?veté_; there is so much sparkle, and so little art in her soul? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- His skin was so unwholesomely deficient in the natural tinge, that he looked as though, if he were cut, he would bleed white. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- No, said Mr. Knightley, nearly at the same time; you are not often deficient; not often deficient either in manner or comprehension. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- A virtue in which few Englishmen are deficient, observes Mr. Tulkinghorn. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- My footman would have had her brought in by force; but force was the very thing in which the most particlerst man as is was most deficient. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
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