单词 | sufficiently |
释义 | sufficiently (once / 159 pages) adv If you do something sufficiently, you’re not wowing anybody, but you've done enough to get by. It’s fine. If you do your homework sufficiently, you’ll pass but don’t expect a gold star and applause. When something is sufficient, it's enough. Therefore, when something occurs sufficiently, it's also good enough in some way. If you’re sufficiently fluent in French, you can talk to people in France, but you’re not writing a French novel any time soon. Doing work sufficiently means getting the job done without going above or beyond. Doing something sufficiently is still much better than doing it insufficiently, which is never enough. WORD FAMILYsufficient: insufficient, self-sufficient, sufficienter, sufficientest, sufficiently+/insufficiency: insufficiencies/insufficient: insufficiency, insufficienter, insufficiently/self-sufficient: self-sufficiency/suffice: sufficed, suffices, sufficiency, sufficient, sufficing/sufficiency: sufficiencies/sufficing: self-sufficing USAGE EXAMPLESThey found that, by 2070, if worldwide emissions aren’t sufficiently reduced, the Persian Gulf would experience heat waves impossible for many humans to survive. The New Yorker(Jan 02, 2017) The actions should sufficiently stabilize the documents for display and travel. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) The state’s high court says the effects of the drug are sufficiently well-known to support the Dayton officer. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) adv to a sufficient degree she was sufficiently fluent in Mandarin Ant insufficiently to an insufficient degree |
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