Inadequate

(adj.) lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task; 'inadequate training'; 'the staff was inadequate'; 'she was unequal to the task' .

(adj.) not sufficient to meet a need; 'an inadequate income'; 'a poor salary'; 'money is short'; 'on short rations'; 'food is in short supply'; 'short on experience' .

录入:玛莎

• Language is always grossly inadequate. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• As for his own inadequate English, he was much too awkward to try it at all. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Their training was legal and therefore utterly inadequate, but it was all they had. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• No matter which one you examine, it is inadequate. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• So that the lofty pile of sedimentary rocks in Britain gives but an inadequate idea of the time which has elapsed during their accumulation. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• He had been familiar with every species of human misery, and had for ever found his powers inadequate, his aid of small avail. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The sewage disposal is often inadequate and badly planned, and the water becomes dangerously contaminated. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Mrs. Elton's resources were inadequate to such an attack. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• For this task his early education might at first glance seem inadequate. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Four sides of incoherent and interjectional beginnings of sentences, that had no end, except blots, were inadequate to afford her any relief. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Hence it will never be discarded by those who can afford its use; but it alone is inadequate for heating and cooking purposes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Interesting, but inadequate. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• All that I should express would be inadequate and feeble. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Nevertheless, these statements convey only an inadequate idea of the true significance of the movement. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• That conscience was inadequate and unintelligent. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

班森编辑