insufficient是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 不足的； 不适当的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This region of the globe is so underlaid with volcanic fires and the volcanoes of recent origin are such insufficient safety valves for the subterranean vapors, that shocks are of frequent occurrence, and are called by the people TREMBLORES.
-- The tent became an insufficient shelter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 320 A tale of two cities Scanty and insufficient suppers those, and innocent of meat, as of most other sauce to wretched bread.
-- It was nothing to her, that his wife was to be made a widow and his daughter an orphan; that was insufficient punish-ment, because they were her natural enemies and her prey, and as such had no right to live.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The moon was entering her first quarter, and her insufficient light would soon die out in the mist on the horizon.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was roused by a suspicion that the Hunziker vaccine had insufficient living organisms, and he went yelping on the trail of his hypothesis.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So saying, he offered the poor Negro a few handfuls of shell-fish, which was indeed wretched and insufficient food.
-- In fact, the settlers longed to exchange the insufficient shelter of the Chimneys for this large and healthy retreat, in the midst of solid rock, and sheltered from the water both of the sea and sky.
-- The Chimneys would have been quite insufficient to protect them against the rigor of winter, and it was to be feared that the high tides would make another irruption.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now she was very conscious that she ought to have prevented them. She felt that she had been risking her friend's happiness on most insufficient grounds.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In one or two instances there was a difficulty respecting the raising of fees, and then Mr. Wemmick, backing as far as possible from the insufficient money produced, said, "it's no use, my boy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He saw Mrs. Sparsit fighting out a daily fight at the points of all the weapons in the female armoury, with the grudging, smarting, peevish, tormenting Lady Scadgers, still laid up in bed with her mysterious leg, and gobbling her insufficient income down by about the middle of every quarter, in a mean little airless lodging, a mere closet for one, a mere crib for two; but did he see more?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The insufficient light did not allow us to see both of the walls at the same time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The novelty of the place, the coming upon it without preparation, the sense of being locked up, the remembrance of that room up-stairs, of the two brothers, and above all of the retiring childish form, and the face in which he now saw years of insufficient food, if not of want, kept him waking and unhappy.
-- But what was really in his mind, was the weak figure with its strong purpose, the thin worn shoes, the insufficient dress, and the pretence of recreation and enjoyment.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the shock was insufficient to repel the impetus of the charge.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sar-castic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.
-- He had some intention, he added, of studying law, and I must be aware that the interest of one thousand pounds would be a very insufficient support therein.
-- Words were insufficient for the elevation of his feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.
-- Had his first appearance, or his resemblance to the picture they had just been exam-ining, been insufficient to assure the other two that theynow saw Mr. Darcy, the gardener's expression of surprise, on beholding his master, must immediately have told it.
-- You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman wor-thy of being pleased.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the few-est disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses, either of body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, lux-ury, and extravagances on the one hand, or by hard labour, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring distemper upon themselves by the nat-ural consequences of their way of living; that the middle station of life was calculated for all kind of virtue and all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the hand-maids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life; that this way men went silently and smoothly through the world, and comfortably out of it, not embar-rassed with the labours of the hands or of the head, not sold to a life of slavery for daily bread, nor harassed with per-plexed circumstances, which rob the soul of peace and the body of rest, nor enraged with the passion of envy, or the secret burning lust of ambition for great things; but, in easy circumstances, sliding gently through the world, and sen-sibly tasting the sweets of living, without the bitter; feeling that they are happy, and learning by every day's experience to know it more sensibly, After this he pressed me earnestly, and in the most af-fectionate manner, not to play the young man, nor to precipitate myself into miseries which nature, and the sta-tion of life I was born in, seemed to have provided against; that I was under no necessity of seeking my bread; that he would do well for me, and endeavour to enter me fairly into the station of life which he had just been recommending to me; and that if I was not very easy and happy in the world, it must be my mere fate or fault that must hinder it; and that he should have nothing to answer for, having thus dis-charged his duty in warning me against measures which he knew would be to my hurt; in a word, that as he would do very kind things for me if I would stay and settle at home as he directed, so he would not have so much hand in my misfortunes as to give me any encouragement to go away; and to close all, he told me I had my elder brother for an example, to whom he had used the same earnest persua-sions to keep him from going into the Low Country wars, but could not prevail, his young desires prompting him to run into the army, where he was killed; and though he said he would not cease to pray for me, yet he would venture to say to me, that if I did take this foolish step, God would not bless me, and I should have leisure hereafter to reflect upon having neglected his counsel when there might be none to assist in my recovery.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
-- My affection for Marianne, my thorough conviction of her attachment to me it was all insufficient to outweigh that dread of poverty, or get the better of those false ideas of the necessity of riches, which I was naturally inclined to feel, and expensive society had increased.
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