The currents of air that the walls of the ship direct upwards,as well as in line of its course are enough to give the great bird with its immense wings sufficent sustenance and progress.
沿著船壁向上引導(dǎo)的以及與航行方向一致的氣流足以給這種長(zhǎng)有特大翅膀的大鳥以充分的支撐力和前進(jìn)力。
Our vicar is always raising money for one cause or another,but he has never managed to get enough money to have the church clock repaired.
我們的牧師老是為這事或那事籌募款項(xiàng),但是從來也沒能募集到足夠把教堂大鐘修復(fù)起來的錢。
The problem set for society is not the virtues of the type so much as its adequacy for its function,and here grave difficulties arise. He refuses to consider sufficiently the wants of the customer,who must buy,not the thing he desires but the thingthe English Gentleman wants to sell. He attends inadequately to technological development.
向社會(huì)提出的問題,與其說是這號(hào)人的德行問題,毋寧說是他們是否能勝任其職責(zé)的問題,于是便出現(xiàn)了嚴(yán)重的困難。他們不肯充分考慮顧客的需要,顧客不得不買的不是自己想要買的東西,而是英國(guó)紳士所要賣的。他們對(duì)技術(shù)的發(fā)展并不給予充分的注意。
The majority of the patients attending the medical outpatients departments of our hospitals feel that they have not received adequate treatment unless they are able to carry home with them some tangible remedy in the shape of a bottle of medicine,abox of pills,or a small jar of ointment,…
在醫(yī)院門診部就醫(yī)的大多數(shù)病人認(rèn)為,如果他們不能帶一些實(shí)實(shí)在在的藥物,如一瓶藥水、一盒藥丸、一小瓶藥膏回家的話,他們就沒得到充分的治療……
enough sufficient adequate
意思都含“充分的”、“足夠的”。
enough 系常用詞, 常可與 sufficient 互換,它除表示“足以滿足需要的”外,還含有“數(shù)量很多使人感到心滿意足的”的意思,如:
We have enough money to spend.
我們有足夠的錢花。
sufficient 用于正式文體中,指“分量或數(shù)量足以滿足需要的”, 如:
The food is sufficient for a week.
食物足夠一周用。
adequate 指“足夠符合特定(有時(shí)可指最低)的資格、分量、才能等”著重“符合一個(gè)客觀要求或標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的”,如:
To be healthy one must have an adequate diet.
一個(gè)人想要健康,必須有足夠的規(guī)定飲食。
advance promote progress proceed
都含有“前進(jìn)”的意思。
advance 指“向某一目標(biāo)或方向前進(jìn)的運(yùn)動(dòng)或效果,并常強(qiáng)調(diào)前進(jìn)的終點(diǎn)”,如:
Our soldiers advanced bravely against the enemy.
我們的士兵勇敢地向敵人挺進(jìn)。
promote 作“提升”解時(shí)可與advance 通用;它強(qiáng)調(diào)“促使某種事業(yè)向前發(fā)展以達(dá)到預(yù)期的結(jié)果,并側(cè)重于對(duì)該人或事物(尤指公開性質(zhì))的贊助和鼓勵(lì)”,如:
John was promoted [advanced] from a clerk to a manager.
約翰由職員晉升為經(jīng)理。
A sound forest economy promotes the prosperity of agriculture and rural life.
完善的森林經(jīng)濟(jì)可以促進(jìn)農(nóng)業(yè)和農(nóng)村生活的興旺與繁榮。