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 insufficient [`ɪnsə'fɪʃənt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 不够的, 不能胜任的, 不充足的

[法] 不足的, 不充分的, 不能胜任的




    insufficient
    [ adj ]
    of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement
    <adj.all>
    insufficient funds


    Insufficient \In`suf*fi"cient\, a. [L. insufficiens, -entis. See
    {In-} not, and {Sufficient}.]
    1. Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate to any need, use,
    or purpose; as, the provisions are insufficient in
    quantity, and defective in quality. ``Insufficient for His
    praise.'' --Cowper.

    2. Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill;
    incompetent; incapable; unfit; as, a person insufficient
    to discharge the duties of an office.

    Syn: Inadequate; scanty; incommensurate; unequal; unfit;
    incompetent; incapable; inefficient.

    1. Millions of them may flood out of countries suffering from insufficient food, housing and jobs into those where conditions are better.
    2. The authority has filed an appeal in state Supreme Court claiming insufficient evidence of discrimination and that the award was excessive.
    3. Eventually, the billions of dollars we sent to prop up a socialist experiment were insufficient to keep the economy from collapsing.
    4. Equity's approval of Jonathan Pryce to play the role of the Eurasian was insufficient evidence that the union had a change of heart, he said.
    5. Each year, only 1% of checks are returned for insufficient funds, but they total about $47 billion.
    6. "Reasonable projections based on the same assumptions as those used in projections made available to the examiner would have shown that Revco was left with insufficient capital to satisfy its then known obligations," he said.
    7. IBES doesn't provide estimates for Taiwan and Indonesia because of insufficient data.
    8. Roh said the appointments were among several measures to cut his ties with Chun's authoritarian regime, but critics called the changes insufficient.
    9. Just as the four week delay was insufficient to discharge the building contract, so it was insufficient to discharge the bond. The effect of delay on Rush & Tompkins's ability to satisfy the condition of the bond was, however, substantial.
    10. Just as the four week delay was insufficient to discharge the building contract, so it was insufficient to discharge the bond. The effect of delay on Rush & Tompkins's ability to satisfy the condition of the bond was, however, substantial.
    11. Major creditors, including the British government, had opposed the settlement as insufficient.
    12. In fact, many of the texts assume that in underdeveloped countries there is an insufficient supply of entrepreneurial talent to propel them forward and so the government must plan.
    13. Even without U.S. protectionism, total Western operating and planned production capacity from 1989 onward will be insufficient to meet expected uranium demand, said the Uranium Institute's supply and demand committee.
    14. But that is insufficient and far too passive.
    15. McNamara said one of the most pressing issues is an industry attempt to eliminate the guaranteed pay for union members when work is insufficient to maintain certain predetermined pay levels.
    16. Mrs. Dapkus said 45 races had no majority winner and will be decided by runoff votes on March 10, while six were invalidated by insufficient voter turnout or other factors.
    17. Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner Fowler West was unfazed by a pair of studies concluding the CFTC's proposed curbs on dual trading are based on flawed research methods and insufficient data.
    18. Last summer, Gesell rejected as "wholly insufficient" the first notices that North filed on Aug. 1, later saying that they "blatantly lacked any attempt at particularization."
    19. The agency reported discontinuing a probe into seat-back failures in Ford passenger cars made between 1983 and 1986, finding insufficient grounds to proceed.
    20. A Transportation Department official, meanwhile, said a report to President Bush on the government and industry response to the spill was "critical of everybody" for a "wholly insufficient" job of reacting to the accident.
    21. "They are kept like animals in small cells or rooms where they have to stand or squat for an unspecified period of time (often as long as seven months) behind iron bars, often with insufficient light," he said.
    22. INR Acquisition also didn't rule out selling certain Insilco operating assets should the non-operating asset sales and results from operations "prove insufficient" to repay the company's debt load.
    23. The Chilean Supreme Court rejected the U.S. extradition request in 1979, saying there was insufficient evidence that Contreras and Espinoza were involved in the assassination.
    24. "I can confirm to you that there is insufficient evidence to establish the identity of the person or group responsible for this," said Inspector Tom McCulloch, a spokesman for the crash investigation in Lockerbie, Scotland.
    25. The report said slow Food and Drug Administration procedures combined with pharmaceutical industry inaction and insufficient action by the administration to limit resources devoted to searching for new treatments.
    26. Most of us felt the techniques of the interviews were very leading." Another juror complained there was insufficient corroborating evidence from witnesses other than the parents to back up the children's stories.
    27. This week's showers have been insufficient, but more rain was expected in the next 36 hours. Worldwide, cotton production is expected to exceed use by 5m bales, resulting in a further gain in stocks.
    28. Questions were raised about Vernon in 1983, but nothing was done because of insufficient staff, regulators say.
    29. Knauss said attempts to protect the turtles by limiting the length of time that shrimpers' nets are in the water _ an approach that has been tried in recent months _ was insufficient to protect the turtles.
    30. 'Anything less would force the US to make it clear that the overall package has been insufficient.' The dollar was a little firmer against the D-Mark.
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