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 enough [i'nʌf]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 充足, 够, 很多

a. 充足的, 足够

ad. 足够

interj. 够了


  1. Enough is as good as a feast.
    知足常乐。
  2. Do you have enough time to finish the paper?
    你有足够的时间写完论文吗?
  3. I've had enough of her continual chatter.
    我已厌烦了她喋喋不休的闲谈。


enough
[ noun ]
  1. an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose

  2. <noun.quantity>
    enough is as good as a feast
    there is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country
[ adv ]
  1. as much as necessary

  2. <adv.all>
    Have I eaten enough?
    I've had plenty, thanks
[ adj ]
  1. sufficient for the purpose

  2. <adj.all>
    an adequate income
    the food was adequate
    a decent wage
    enough food
    food enough


Enough \E*nough"\, adv.
1. In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction;
sufficiently.

2. Fully; quite; -- used to express slight augmentation of
the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as,
he is ready enough to embrace the offer.

I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.
--Shak.

Thou knowest well enough . . . that this is no time
to lend money. --Shak.

3. In a tolerable degree; -- used to express mere
acceptableness or acquiescence, and implying a degree or
quantity rather less than is desired; as, the song was
well enough.

Note: Enough usually follows the word it modifies.


Enough \E*nough"\ ([-e]*n[u^]f"), a. [OE. inoh, inow, enogh, AS.
gen[=o]h, gen[=o]g, a. & adv. (akin to OS. gin[=o]g, D.
genoeg, OHG. ginoug, G. genug, Icel. gn[=o]gr, Sw. nog, Dan.
nok, Goth. gan[=o]hs), fr. geneah it suffices (akin to Goth.
ganah); pref. ge- + a root akin to L. nancisci to get, Skr.
na[,c], Gr. 'enegkei^n to carry.]
Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want;
sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the
noun to which it belongs.

How many hired servants of my father's have bread
enough and to spare! --Luke xv. 17.


Enough \E*nough"\, n.
A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate
to the want, or is equal to the power or ability; as, he had
enough to do take care of himself. ``Enough is as good as a
feast.''

And Esau said, I have enough, my brother. --Gen.
xxxiii. 9.

enough \e*nough"\, interj.
An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form
of it is enough.

  1. Where Italy, in the eyes of their fans, have barely scraped through, Germany have done just enough.
  2. "You can always pick some number and say, `Is this enough, or is this too little?"' he said.
  3. The General Electric Company had a look at the business earlier this year, but was not prepared to pay enough.
  4. With a turnover of just under Pounds 100m a year it is not big enough to insist on improvements from its suppliers.
  5. Fair enough, if this means gilts or mortgage bonds.
  6. After having problems finding enough good samples to use in drumming up business, Ms. Spiros was forced to recall the one and only shipment that ever left the basement _ 2,000 gloves sent to a San Francisco-area ambulance company.
  7. Vote totals were not immediately released, although Georgia-Pacific said previously it controlled enough shares to ensure easy approval of the merger.
  8. "That's not the issue," he said. "I got enough votes to become the president.
  9. The highly controversial theory says such impacts kicked up dust and triggered smoky fires that blocked enough sunlight to freeze many creatures and deprive others of food supplies.
  10. The way you gain credibility here is doing these thingsor at least doing them enough to give the impression that you're doing them." That's only just begun.
  11. "We're still paying for the rally we had in January and February," said Mr. Goldman, adding that only more selling can raise cash reserves and investor pessimism enough to fuel another run higher.
  12. But the question in some money managers' minds is whether Eberstadt took enough trouble to verify its potentially damaging information about TPA.
  13. "It's short enough for almost anyone no matter what their fears are.
  14. Den Norske Creditbank, Norway's biggest bank, said it may have incurred a loss of more than 600 million Norwegian kroner ($94.2 million), enough to wipe out 1987 net income.
  15. But it would leave enough goodies to go around that hardly anyone need be entirely dissatisfied.
  16. The problem is not simply that Mr. Nair might have worked on the article published May 11 on these pages, something that strikes us as hardly enough to threaten the state security of Singapore.
  17. When Christie and his musicians are on stage, I am inclined to think that there is more than enough to stimulate the imagination, for Purcell's delightful and magical world seems to lie at their fingertips.
  18. Bush, who is promising a balanced budget for 1993 while vowing to cut taxes and increase some spending along the way, has stayed vague enough to sound almost plausible.
  19. Strong enough, at least, to convince many analysts that the Fed would raise interest rates next week to slow down an economy that may now have grown by as much as 4.5 per cent or 5 per cent in the second quarter.
  20. And Nancy Hall, an industry analyst at Smith Barney, Harris Upham Inc., found the $960 million transaction close enough.
  21. Mongolia, ruled by Communists since 1921 and long a client of the Soviet Union, has cautiously followed the Soviet lead in embracing "perestroika," or reform, but apparently not quickly enough for some of its citizens.
  22. The couple love reminiscing about the festival with visitors, but they know enough not to bring up the name "Woodstock" to longtime Bethel residents.
  23. "The government is not at war with the airlines," he added. "But it's not enough for the government to do it alone." In the four seizures since August, 494 pounds of cocaine has been found aboard Eastern aircraft.
  24. The question of a successor immediately turned to whether Mr. Bush would nominate a black and whether the field of black conservatives was wide enough to choose from.
  25. McCain said Congress has enough problems at the moment without exempting itself from laws that eliminate bias and discrimination.
  26. While some people say the airport will not attract enough business to be viable, others say it is essential to attract foreign investment and bring more tourists to the territory.
  27. The two quintessential yuppie television shows are doing well enough, despite everything.
  28. On defense, aides suggest that the vice president would increase spending only enough to match inflation.
  29. We don't even have enough housing for our young people." On Oct. 3, the first anniversary of reunification, three local youths threw a Molotov cocktail through a ground-floor window of the Huenxe asylum home.
  30. Hisham Nazer, the oil minister of Saudi Arabia, said on Monday in Vienna there was "unanimous recognition in OPEC" that OPEC alone cannot keep supplies low enough to prevent prices from lagging.
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