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1. The performance was adequate.
表演还算可以。
2. That hotel is merely adequate.
那家旅馆只能说是差强人意。
3. The supply is not adequate to the demand.
供不应求。
4. I hope you will prove adequate to the job.
我希望你能胜任这工作。
5. She proved adequate to the job.
事实证明她能胜任此项工作。
1. 适当的：(b)适当的(Adequate)指为达到良好的公共卫生规范的预期目的所需要满足的要求. (c) 面糊(Batter)是指一种半流体物质,通常包含面粉和其他成份. 要加工的主要成份可在其中浸蘸,或用它涂膜,或直接用它制成焙烤食品.
2. 适当：但是,中国人作为一个整体,缺乏适当(adequate)的经济教育,或者人生教育. 比如说, 很多中国人在到处打听,自己如何进行投资,投资什么会赚钱. 但是,人们往往忽略的是,生活费用也是一种投资,而且对于人生来说,是最重要的投资.
1. 足够的；合格的；可用的
If something is adequate, there is enough of it or it is good enough to be used or accepted.
e.g. One in four people worldwide are without adequate homes...
全世界有1/4的人没有个像样的家。
e.g. The old methods weren't adequate to meet current needs...
老一套方法已不足以满足当前的需要。
adj
1. having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task
e.g. she had adequate training
her training was adequate
she was adequate to the job
he was equal to the task
Synonym: equal
2. about average
acceptable
e.g. more than adequate as a secretary
Synonym: passablefair to middlingtolerable
3. sufficient for the purpose
e.g. an adequate income
the food was adequate
a decent wage
enough food
food enough