adequate
音标：
英音/ ˈædɪkwət / 美音/ ˈædɪkwət /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
Ms Saunders said the nurse practitioner failed to document an adequate history of how and where Dylan’s pain had started.
桑德斯女士表示，这名执业护士未能充分记录迪伦疼痛是如何以及从何处开始的。
—BBC
Some neighborhoods have lacked adequate piped water for years, but today, communities that have never had shortages are suddenly facing them.
一些社区多年来一直缺乏足够的自来水，但今天，从未出现过短缺的社区突然面临着这些问题。
—New York Times
“Nobody could walk into an emergency department, whether it was here or anywhere else in the country, and see people being cared for in corridors or ambulances waiting outside and say this is adequate.”
“没有人可以走进急诊室，无论是在这里还是在全国其他任何地方，看到人们在走廊里接受护理或救护车在外面等候，并说这已经足够了。”
—BBC
基本释意：
adjective
having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task
足够的，适当的，合乎需要的；（品质）足够好的，令人满意的；（质量）达到要求的，勉强过关的
同义词：
equal,decent,enough,fair to middling,passable,tolerable
短释义：
Adequate can also describe something that is acceptable or satisfactory, but not any better than that. You might say that a student’s grades are adequate but need improvement. This word is from Latin adaequāre”to make equal,” from the prefix ad- plus aequare “to equal.”
当你想说某件事对于特定需要来说足够或足够好时，请使用形容词足够的。您可能有足够的面粉来制作一批煎饼，但不要太多。
长释义：
Adequate can also describe something that is acceptable or satisfactory, but not any better than that. You might say that a student’s grades are adequate but need improvement. This word is from Latin adaequāre”to make equal,” from the prefix ad- plus aequare “to equal.”
足够也可以描述一些可以接受或令人满意的事情，但没有比这更好的了。您可能会说，学生的成绩还不错，但需要改进。这个词来自拉丁语adaequāre“使平等”，来自前缀ad-加上aequare“平等”。
文学例句：
Gentle to the clumsy, girl-voiced boys whom he trained to be average, to be adequate, as he hit the soft fungoes to the outfield green.
当他将柔软的蘑菇打到外场果岭时，他对那些笨拙、女声的男孩们很温柔，他把他们训练成普通的、合格的。
—The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
His features were as unyielding as a mask, showing only enough sympathy to be considered adequate.
他的面容如同面具一样坚韧，只表现出足够的同情心。
—The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros
My lies about my family were adequate, I suppose, but they could not stand up under these glaring attacks.
我想，我对家人的谎言已经足够了，但他们在这些明显的攻击下站不住脚。
—The Secret History by Donna Tartt
词源：
adequate (adj.)1610s, “equal to what is needed or desired, sufficient,” from Latin adaequatus “equalized,” past participle of adaequare “to make equal to, to level with,” from ad “to” (see ad-) + aequare “make level,” from aequus “equal, even” (see equal (adj.)).
The sense is of being “equal to what is required.” It shares duty with enough, depending on the subject. Somewhat disparaging use, “mediocre, just good enough,” is by 1900. Related: Adequateness.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
足够的（adj.）1610s，“等于需要或想要的，足够的”，来自拉丁语adaequatus“均衡”，adaequare的过去分词“使等于，达到水平”，来自ad“到”（参见ad- ) + aequare“使水平”，源自 aequus“等于，偶数”（参见 equal (adj.)）。其含义是“等于所需要的”。它与足够的人分担责任，具体取决于主题。到 1900 年，有些贬义的说法是“平庸，刚刚好”。相关：充足性。相关条目及更多
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