1not good enough不夠好VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITIONVERBS➤appear, be, look, prove, seem顯得不足;不夠好;看上去不充分;證明不足;似乎不足▸➤become變得不足➤remain依然不夠好▸➤consider sth, find sth, judge sth, regard sth as, think sth (especially BrE) 認為⋯不足;覺得⋯不充分◇These precautions have been judged inadequate.這些防範措施被認為不夠周全。ADVERB➤deeply, grossly, hopelessly, pitifully, seriously, woefully太少;少得可憐;嚴重不足◇His salary was pitifully inadequate for the needs of his growing family.他的工資少得可憐,不夠養活添丁增口的家庭。➤completely, entirely, quite, totally, utterly, wholly (especially BrE) 完全不夠;十分不充分;根本不足➤simply簡直不夠➤increasingly越來越不充分➤clearly, manifestly, obviously明顯不足;顯然不充分➤notoriously出名地差勁PREPOSITION➤at在⋯方面不足◇People, despite their intelligence, are curiously inadequate at communicating with horses.人類雖然很有智慧,但在與馬交流方面卻出奇地愚笨。➤for對⋯來說不足◇This computer is clearly inadequate for my needs.這台計算機顯然不能滿足我的需要。inadequate
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2not able to deal with a situation應對能力不足VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITIONVERBS➤be, feel, seem不能勝任;感覺不勝任;似乎不夠格◇I felt dreadfully inadequate.我感覺自己極不勝任。ADVERB➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極其/相當/非常不勝任◇I suddenly felt extremely inadequate as I compared myself to him.把我自己和他一比,我突然覺得自己根本不稱職。➤deeply, hopelessly極不合格;很不勝任➤totally, wholly (especially BrE) 完全不能勝任;完全不夠格➤generally大體上不夠格➤sexually性能力不足PREPOSITION➤to不足以應付◇The helicopters are inadequate to the demands of modern combat.這些直升機不能滿足現代戰鬥的需求。◇She was inadequate to the demands of the job.她無法達到這份工作的要求。
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