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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under this the Abraham Lincoln attained the mean speed of nearly eighteen knots and a third an hour a considerable speed, but, nevertheless, insufficient to grapple with this gigantic cetacean.
-- The same insufficient light, the same solitude.
-- They found it exact as to facts, but insufficient as to effect.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Absorbed in these painful ruminations, thinking with a drooping heart of his mother and little Jacob, feeling as though even the consciousness of innocence would be insufficient to support him in the presence of his friends if they believed him guilty, and sinking in hope and courage more and more as they drew nearer to the notary's, poor Kit was looking earnestly out of the window, observant of nothing, when all at once, as though it had been conjured up by magic, he became aware of the face of Quilp.
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