喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a line drawn on the wall marked 'enough for this job'. Something adequate reaches that line — enough in amount, or good enough in quality, for the purpose in hand — and reaching the line is all it does.

可以想成牆上畫著一條線，上面寫著「這件事需要到這裡」。adequate 描述的是剛好搆到那條線的狀態：錢夠不夠付、房…更多收起可以想成牆上畫著一條線，上面寫著「這件事需要到這裡」。adequate 描述的是剛好搆到那條線的狀態：錢夠不夠付、房間夠不夠大、說明講得夠不夠清楚，都是拿東西去比那條線。搆到了就成立，而它的重點也就停在「搆到了」，不再往上多說什麼。

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

adequateadj/ˈæd.ə.kwɪt/

  • 1

    Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.

    • powers adequate to a great work
    • an adequate definition

adequatedet

  • 1

    A sufficient amount of; enough.

    • We have adequate money for the journey.

adequateverb/ˈæd.ɪˌkweɪt/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo equalize; to make adequate.

    • Let me giue yet one instance more, of a truly intellectuall obiect, exactly adequated and proportioned vnto the intellectuall appetite.
  • 2

    obsoleteTo equal.

    • […] though it be an impossibilitie for any creature to adequate God in his eternitie, yet he hath ordained all his sonnes in Christ to partake of it by living with him eternally.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。