Insufficient
[ɪnsə'fɪʃ(ə)nt] or [,ɪnsə'fɪʃnt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; 'insufficient funds' .
錄入:弗农--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate to any need, use, or purpose; as, the provisions are insufficient in quantity, and defective in quality.
(a.) Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill; incompetent; incapable; unfit; as, a person insufficient to discharge the duties of an office.
手打:梅格
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Inadequate, incompetent, unequal, incapable, unfit, not sufficient.
錄入:泰茜
同義詞及反義詞：
[See SUFFICIENT]
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解釋/意思:
adj. not sufficient: deficient: unfit: incapable.—ns. Insuffic′iency Insuffic′ience (rare).—adv. Insuffic′iently.
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例句/造句/用法:
- You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Presently Philotas was accused of conspiracy, and, upon very insufficient evidence, tortured and executed. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Four sides of paper were insufficient to contain all her delight, and all her earnest desire of being loved by her sister. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- If the quantity of air is insufficient, the carbon particles remain unburned and form soot. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Mostly these men have worked against great discouragement, with insufficient funds and small help or support from the mass of mankind. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- If, on the other hand, air passes to the lungs by way of the mouth, the warming process is brief and insufficient, and the lungs suffer in consequence. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- She felt that she had been risking her friend's happiness on most insufficient grounds. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- He made a diagram in which one atom of oxygen was combined with one atom of nitrogen, but in this case the oxygen was insufficient to satisfy all the nitrogen of the atmosphere. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- And there was a great crowding and dislocation of goods at the dép?ts because there was insufficient road transport. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The poor creatures were packed on the ships often with insufficient provision of food and water, without proper sanitation, without medicines. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The institution of long apprenticeships can give no security that insufficient workmanship shall not frequently be exposed to public sale. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Scanty and insufficient suppers those, and innocent of meat, as of most other sauce to wretched bread. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- He had a reason for going away, though it was an insufficient one. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- By the extension, besides, of cultivation, the unimproved wilds become insufficient to supply the demand for butcher's meat. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But II is insufficient. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I had, said he, come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The authorities held that a robbery had been planned, on insufficient information received by the thieves. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- On several occasions during the war such details were made when the complement of men with the navy was insufficient for the duty before them. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
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