inadequate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 不充足的， 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：
-- The foreyard, which did very well for mooring the anchors, was quite inadequate to the transport of passengers and provisions.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But surely such an explanation as that would be quite inadequate to account for the deep and subtle scheming which seemed to be weaving an invisible net round the young baronet.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The banquet ended early, and there was inadequate attention to Dr. Rouncefield's valuable address on the Sterilization of Catgut.
-- He stuffed his books, his notes, a shabby suit, his inadequate linen, and his one glory, the dinner clothes, into his unwieldy imitation-leather bag.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Foursides of incoherent and interjectional beginnings of sentences, thathad no end, except blots, were inadequate to afford her any relief.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Time, she knew, must be allowed for this being thorough-ly done; and she could suppose herself but an indifferent judge of such matters in general, and very inadequate to sympathise in an attachment to Mr. Elton in particular; but it seemed to her reasonable that at Harriet's age, and with the entire extinction of all hope, such a progress might be made towards a state of composure by the time of Mr. Elton's return, as to allow them all to meet again in the common routine of acquaintance, without any danger of betraying sentiments or increasing them.
-- Mrs. Elton's re-sources were inadequate to such an attack.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had never impressed me as being very strong, and I hoped to find my bar of iron not altogether inadequate for the work.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All that I should express would be inadequate and feeble.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, the Wilkes " "Not meaning to change the subject, Ma'm," broke in Gerald hurriedly, for he had noticed Carreen's bewilderedlook and the avid curiosity on Suellen's face and feared lest they might ask Ellen embarrassing questions which wouldreveal how inadequate a chaperon he was.
-- Of the swiftly scampering child, all that now remained were two tiny feet, inadequate to herweight, and a tendency to prattle happily and aimlessly.
-- PoorPittypat had been quaking in her number-three shoes for fear of being blamed for Scarlett's forward conduct and wouldbe the last to notify Ellen of her own inadequate chaperonage.
-- And then Aunt Pitty, who was jumping up and down on her inadequate little feet withexcitement.
-- The town was crowded with soldiers, swamped with wounded, jammed withrefugees, and this one line was inadequate for the crying needs of the stricken city.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for his own inadequate English, he was much too awkward to try it at all.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These poor priests receive from the Danish Government a most ridiculously inadequate salary, and collect one quarter of the tithe of their parish--not more than sixty marks current, or about L3 10s.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They came to start housekeeping and married life in the rather forlorn home of the Chatterleys on a rather inadequate income.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It originated in Mrs. Gardiner, who, fatigued by the exercise of the morning, found Elizabeth's arm inadequate to her support, and consequently preferred her husband's.
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