- 1aB2
/səˈfɪʃənt/
Reaching the amount that a particular purpose needs.
足夠的
核心畫面
Picture a line drawn at the level something needs to reach, and the amount you have arriving exactly at that line. Sufficient can be thought of as 'it reaches the mark' — the job can be done, nothing is missing. It says nothing about extra: enough to finish, not necessarily enough to feel comfortable.
可以想成有一條線，畫在「這件事需要多少」的高度，而你手上的量剛好碰到那條線。sufficient 就像在說「到得了那…更多收起
可以想成有一條線，畫在「這件事需要多少」的高度，而你手上的量剛好碰到那條線。sufficient 就像在說「到得了那條線」——事情做得成，沒有短缺。它不談多出來的部分：夠用完成，但不見得夠到讓人寬裕。原始詞典資料6 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。
sufficientdet/səˈfɪʃənt/
- 1
An adequate quantity of; enough.
- We have sufficient supplies to last the winter.
- There is not sufficient access to the Internet in many small rural villages.
- 2
A quantity (of something) that is as large as is needed.
- We don't need any more; we already have sufficient.
- Sufficient of us are against this idea that we should stop now.
sufficientadj/səˈfɪʃənt/
- 1
Of a type or kind that suffices, that satisfies requirements or needs.
- This is a necessary condition but not a sufficient one.
- 2
Possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; of competent power or ability; qualified; fit.
- They felt sufficient to maintain their present prosperity and independence.
- I have never yet felt adequate. I have never yet felt sufficient.
- 3
archaicCapable of meeting obligations; responsible.
- ...to take the best ways we can, to make it known to the Duke of York; for, till Sir J. Minnes be removed, and a sufficient man brought into W. Pen's place, when he is gone, it is impossible for this Office ever to support itself.
- 4
obsoleteHaving enough money to meet obligations and live comfortably.
- I shall in this place only mention that qualification by wealth; the rather, being applyed to the deputies of towns and citties, where they use to say of a rich man, he is a very sufficient man : and the other sufficiencies and qualifications are mentioned on other occasions.
- Some persons have been called, who have proved (it is true) that he was insufficient at that time, and could not pay more than 3 or 4,000l.; but the same witnesses give an account, that his ill circumstances were then known but to four or five persons of his acquaintance, and that by all other people, who had any knowledge of him at that time, he was looked upon to be very sufficient ; he had left off his business upon having raised an estate; he was of good reputation: he lived at Hackne in a house making a good appearance, with good furniture, and a great quantity of plate, till the last, till the time of his being put in prison, which was not till last year, that he surrendered himself in discharge of his bail.
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。