insufficiently adv.
不够地,不能胜任地
insufficiently[ adv ]
to an insufficient degree
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he was insufficiently prepared
Insufficiently \In`suf*fi"cient*ly\, adv.
In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
- On Sunday, Soweto town councilor T.A. Nkina was deemed insufficiently radical by some ANC soldiers, who surrounded his house.
- He worries that Germany's successful postwar industrial system, based on consensus between management and trade unions, might prove insufficiently robust to weather the strains of reunification.
- The baby is suffering breathing difficulty because her lungs are insufficiently developed.
- Americans did not consciously decide their country was under-populated and insufficiently cosmopolitan.
- Along the border, the environmental issues are twofold: pollution from the so-called "maquiladora" industries, and pollution from untreated or insufficiently treated air emissions or water discharges, some attributable to rapid population growth.
- While 18 months ago the term was known only to a handful of cognoscenti, today we are besieged by self-proclaimed 'experts' who busily assure all who will listen that re-engineering is too radical, insufficiently radical or nothing new.
- Mr. Scowcroft and other White House officials privately have been critical of the low-key intelligence boss, who is seen as too close to Congress and insufficiently aggressive.
- Still, the very British narrator has trouble concealing a note of supercilious distaste for these Air Force veterans who calmly swallow dinner and talk quietly among themselves and who clearly are, in the narrator's view, insufficiently guilt-ridden.
- Washington imposed the sanctions last year because it said Brazilian laws insufficiently protect foreign pharmaceutical patents.
- Last year's land bank write-down may yet prove insufficiently pessimistic, while the unchanged Spitalfields valuation is based on a large number of very long-term assumptions.