sufficient是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 足够的, 充分的，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 down beneath me in a cleft of the hills there was a circle of the old stone huts, and in the middle of them there was one which retained sufficient roof to act as a screen against the weather.
-- Sufficient for to-morrow is the evil thereof; but I hope before the day is past to have the up-per hand at last.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The terms are most reasonable, and I trust that your salary will very shortly prove amply sufficient for your -expenditure.
-- He had sufficient insight to understand that she valued nothing in the world herself least of all and he made no attempt to conceal the fact that he was a cow-ard in some respects.
-- Was there something in the whole aspect of the man, to-day, sufficient to justify the prince's terror, and the awful suspicions of his demon?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In an empty hut I feasted on some specked and half-decayed fruit; and then after I had propped some branches and sticks about the opening, and placed myself with my face towards it and my hand upon my revolver, the exhaustion of the last thirty hours claimed its own, and I fell into a light slumber, hop-ing that the flimsy barricade I had erected would cause sufficient noise in its removal to save me from surprise.
-- Had I possessed sufficient cartridges, I should not have hesitated to begin the killing.
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：
-- There is sufficient historical truth in the picture to justify the use that has been made of it.
-- The less zealous English thought they con-ferred a sufficient honor on its unsullied fountains, when they bestowed the name of their reigning prince, the second of the house of Hanover.
-- That while he tendered to Alice the gourd of sweet water, and the venison in a trencher, neatly carved from the knot of the pepperidge, with sufficient courtesy, in performing the same offices to her sister, his dark eye lingered on her rich, speaking countenance.
-- However revolting a proposal of such a character might prove to Cora, she retained, notwithstanding her powerful disgust, sufficient self-command to reply, without betray-ing the weakness.
-- A rapid and oblique glance at the moss on the trees, with an occasional upward gaze toward the setting sun, or a steady but passing look at the direction of the numerous water courses, through which he waded, were sufficient to determine his path, and remove his great- est difficulties.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The revenue arising from his school was small, and would have been scarcely sufficient to furnish him with daily bread, for he was a huge feeder, and, though lank, had the dilating powers of an anaconda; but to help out his maintenance, he was, according to country custom in those parts, boarded and lodged at the houses of the farmers whose children he instructed.
-- Just sufficient time had elapsed to enable each story-teller to dress up his tale with a little be-coming fiction, and, in the indistinctness of his recollection, to make himself the hero of every exploit.
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：
-- I gave him a sufficient dose of veronal to insure his unconsciousness for several hours.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is sufficient to throw out the lightest article to produce a difference in its vertical position.
-- The Chimneys offered a retreat sufficient for the present.
-- The slope often presented such an angle that they slipped when the stones worn by the air did not give a sufficient support.
-- It was the slender crescent moon, already almost disappearing; but its light was sufficient to show clearly the horizontal line, then detached from the cloud, and the engineer could see its reflection trembling for an instant on a liquid surface.
-- "Bows and arrows were sufficient for centuries to stain the earth with blood.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Mr Swiveller, tapping his nose, 'a word to the wise is sufficient for them we may be good and happy without riches, Fred.
-- It will be sufficient to say that the lesson was given that evening passed and night came on that the old man again grew restless and impatient that he quitted the house secretly at the same hour as before and that the child was once more left alone within its gloomy walls.
-- It is sufficient to know that vanity, interest, poverty, and every spendthrift consideration urged him to look upon the proposal with favour, and that where all other inducements were wanting, the habitual carelessness of his disposition stepped in and still weighed down the scale on the same side.
-- Mr Swiveller heard this account with a degree of admiration not altogether consistent with the project in which he had just concurred, but his friend attached very little importance to his behavior in this respect, probably because he knew that he had influence sufficient to control Richard Swiveller's proceedings in this or any other matter, whenever he deemed it necessary, for the advancement of his own purposes, to exert it.
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