inadequate

单词inadequate

基本解释

adj.: 不充分的；不足的；不够的；不胜任的
网络: 不适当的；不充足的

权威解释

• 不充分的；不足的；不够的:

  not enough; not good enough

• 不胜任的；缺乏信心的:

  not able, or not confident enough, to deal with a situation

英汉解释

• 薄弱的;渺小

• 非适宜的

• 不适的

• 不中用,不适用的,不顶用的;不称职的

• 难以满足,不令人满意

• 不合适的;不恰当的,不适当的,不切当的

• 不适当的;不充足的

• 不够的

• 不足以;没有资格

• 不足,不够,欠缺的,不充分的

单词搭配

• adj.+n.:

  inadequate housing,inadequate insurance,inadequate control,inadequate diet,inadequate security

同义词

adj.insufficientscarcetoo littlederisorylaughable

反义词

adj.sufficientcapable

例句

• The Japanese had launched against the Philippines an air attack that quickly reduced our inadequate air forces to practical impotence.

  日本已向菲律宾采取空中攻势，使我们原极薄弱的空军丧失其战斗力。

• First, that dedicated funding could prove inadequate, forcing the program either to cut benefits or to turn to Congress for aid.

  第一，专项资金被证明不够，迫使该机制要么削减受益金，要么转而向国会寻求帮助。

• Light, for instance, had been heretofore described as a wave yet some experiments were suggesting this was an inadequate model.

  比如在此之前，光被解释为一种波，但是一些实验结果表明这个模型并不完善。

• However, the problem of low quality and inadequate quantity of rural teachers has always been a "bottleneck" in American education.

  然而，教师质量低下和数量短缺的问题却一直是美国教育中的一个瓶颈。

• Answer (B) is incorrect because unforeseen obstacles cannot be anticipated and do not necessarily indicate that planning was inadequate.

  选项（B）错误的原因是不可抗力因素本身是不可预知的，而且它并不表示计划就是不适当的。

• He had a whole discussion about these kinds of problems, but the point was he said in the end, the sensory base of knowledge is inadequate.

  他有一个对整个讨论这类问题，但问题是他最后说，基础知识是不够的感觉。

• Yet the quality of information filtering through to senior managers is often inadequate.

  然而那些由高端经理过滤过的信息质量通常都不太令人满意。

• For a discussion of stars our language is inadequate and seems laughable, as if someone were trying to plow with a feather.

  因为我们人类的语言不适合论述星辰，否则会显得可笑，就如同某些人想用羽毛去犁地一样。

• the top us trade officials said the lack of transparency and inadequate notice may violate world trade organization rules.

  前美国贸易官员表示，缺乏透明度和不足，通知可能违反世界贸易组织的规则。

• A humble person tends to suffer from solitude, felling himself inadequate company, longing for others to be around.

  感觉谦卑的人往往易受孤独的折磨，感觉仅仅与自己相处远远不够，渴望有人作伴。