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Sufficiency means having enough of something - usually food, money, or resources - so that nothing more is needed. You will meet this word most often as part of ',' which means being able to make or provide everything you need yourself, without depending on other people. For example, a country with food can feed its own people without buying food from other countries.
充足；最常見的用法是「自給自足」(self-sufficiency)
組成sufficient + -cy. '-cy' is an ending that turns a describing word into a word for a state or condition.
同家族的字
- sufficientthe describing word this comes from - being 'sufficient' means being enough
- insufficientthe opposite - not enough
原始詞典資料2 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。
sufficiencynoun
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The quality or condition of being sufficient.
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An adequate amount.
- But the Eastern front of the Allies was far more vulnerable. Russia could not begin to supply herself with a sufficiency of large guns and of heavy munitionment for them.
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。