| 释义 |
insufficiently, adv.|ɪnsəˈfɪʃəntlɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In an insufficient manner or degree; inadequately; not enough.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 178 b, Better it is to prayse her though insufficiently, than to holde my tonge from her prayses. 1532–3Act 24 Hen. VIII, c. 1 Hydes and tanned lether..vntruly, insufficiently, and deceiuably tanned. 1641Milton Animadv. iii. Wks. (1847) 60/2 As insufficiently, and..as imprudently did they provide by their contrived liturgies. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 336 If he [man] be insufficiently or ill educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures. |