adequate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 充分的; 可胜任的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides that it was very difficult to impart to any person not intimately acquainted with the life she led, an adequate sense of its gloom and loneliness, a constant fear of in some way committing or injuring the old man to whom she was so tenderly attached, had restrained her, even in the midst of her heart's overflowing, and made her timid of allusion to the main cause of her anxiety and distress.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was necessary to have dry wood to keep the steam up to the adequate pressure, and on that day the poop, cabins, bunks, and the spare deck were sacrificed.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he has a dirty old office, with hand-me-down chairs and a lot of second- hand magazines, then the patient isn't going to have confidence in him; he is going to resist the treatment--and the doctor is going to have difficulty in putting over and collecting an adequate fee.
-- Martin sought for adequate answer.
-- With this and the other complications, viewing his hot work in St. Hubert as coldly as though it were the pretense of a man whom he had never seen, Martin decided that he had no adequate proof, and strode in to see the Director.
-- Two evenings after, when they had returned from the opera, she led him to the cement-floored garage beneath his new laboratory, and in a corner, ready to be set up, was a secondhand but adequate centrifuge, a most adequate centrifuge, the masterpiece of the great firm of Berkeley- Saunders--in fact none other than Gladys, whose dismissal from McGurk for her sluttish ways had stirred Martin and Terry to go out and get bountifully drunk.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps Charles Strickland was dull judged by a standard that demanded above all things verbal scintillation; but his intelligence was adequate to his surroundings, and that is a passport, not only to reasonable success, but still more to happiness.
-- Though his means were adequate to the needs of himself and his wife, he certainly had no money to waste; but now he was wantonly extravagant in the purchase of delicacies, out of season and dear, which might tempt Strickland's capricious appetite.
-- I remembered having heard that her sister, Mrs. MacAndrew, outliving her husband but a couple of years, had left money to Mrs. Strickland; and by the look of the house and the trim maid who opened the door I judged that it was a sum adequate to keep the widow in modest comfort.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was not so materially cast down, however, but that a little time and the return of Harriet were very adequate restoratives.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had by this time grown used to being in love; the passion now startled him less even when it tortured him more, and he felt himself adequate to the situation.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to so arduous an undertaking, but I doubted not that I should ultimately succeed.
-- I had before experienced sensations of horror, and I have endeavoured to bestow upon them adequate expressions, but words can-not convey an idea of the heart-sickening despair that I then endured.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Prissy was not the most adequate of nurses.
-- There was a nibble of the tough old bird foreach, an adequate amount of dressing made of corn meal and seasoned with onions, a bowl of dried peas, and plenty ofrice and gravy, the latter somewhat watery, for there was no flour with which to thicken it For dessert, there was asweet potato pie followed by Rhett's bonbons, and when Rhett produced real Havana cigars for the gentlemen to enjoyover their glass of blackberry wine, everyone agreed it was indeed a Lucullan banquet When the gentlemen joined the ladies on the front porch, the talk turned to war.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For not only do fabulous rumors naturally grow out of the very body of all surprising terrible events, as the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi; but, in maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His temptation is not adequate to the risk!'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her legal allowance was not adequate to her fortune, nor sufficient for her comfortable maintenance, and I learnt from my brother that the power of receiving it had been made over some months before to another person.
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