adequate的解释是什么

1. 足够的，充分的
2. 适当的，胜任的，恰当的，适合的，适用的，合适的，能满足需要的，合格的，合乎需要的
3. 尚可的，差强人意的
4. 得心应手的

1. （使）相等，（使）对等

1. having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task;

   "she had adequate training"
   "her training was adequate"
   "she was adequate to the job"
   "he was equal to the task"
   

2. sufficient for the purpose;

   "an adequate income"
   "the food was adequate"
   "a decent wage"
   "enough food"
   "food enough"
   

3. about average; acceptable;

   "more than adequate as a secretary"
   

1.足够的；合格的；可用的
If something isadequate, there is enough of it or it is good enough to be used or accepted.

e.g. One in four people worldwide are withoutadequate homes...
全世界有1/4的人没有个像样的家。
e.g. The old methods weren'tadequate to meet current needs...
老一套方法已不足以满足当前的需要。

1. There was adequate rain and snow last winter.
   去年冬天雨雪充足。
2. You ought to take adequate measures.
   你应该采取适当的措施。

1. They had money adequate for the cost of the journey.
   他们的钱足够这次旅行的费用。
2. We found a solution adequate to the problem.
   我们找到了解决这个问题的适当方法。

1. The council's provision for the elderly is barely adequate.
   理事会对老年人的条款规定不充分。

1. Is your time adequate for it?
   你有足够的时间做此事吗?
2. The food is adequate for all of us.
   这些食物足够我们大家吃的。
3. This is adequate for the purpose.
   这足以达到目的。
4. His knowledge of French was adequate for the job although he was not fluent in the language.
   他的法语虽不流利，倒也足够其工作之需。
5. Sometimes simple language alone is not adequate for expressing emotions; therefore, rhetoric devices are needed.
   有时单凭简单的语言无法充分表达情感，所以要运用修辞手段。
6. The supply is not adequate to the demand.
   供不应求。
7. The means is not adequate to the end.
   用这种方法不能达到目的。
8. Though a bit too old, he is still adequate to the work.
   虽然他年纪大了点,却仍能胜任这项工作。

1. My salary is not adequate to support our family.
   我的薪水不够维持一家的生活。
2. Our science and engineering are not adequate to meet that challenge.
   我们的科学和工程学是不足以迎接那种挑战的。

• Let them continue as is meet To adequate the balance-sheet.

  出自：Joyce

• No text literally..adequates its signifiers to some signified distinct from them.

  出自：T. Eagleton

• ☆ 1610年左右进入英语，直接源自拉丁语的adquatus，意为平均的。