查单词 · 学外语

精品英语词典

首页enoughenough考试真题

enough

英 [ɪ'nʌf] 美[ɪ'nʌf]

英英释义同义词辨析词组搭配考试真题实用场景例句

adv. 足够地，充足地
n. 很多；充足
adj. 充足的
int. 够了！

考试真题

If it is hard enough to define a team's membership, agreeing on its purpose is harder still.

With wild carrots, the roots are white, small and skinny, so you’d have to pick a lot of wild carrots to get enough to eat.

What about supply? The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.

Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices' closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can't make it home and back fast enough anyway.

These findings are in agreement with what you would expect from the evolutionary theory: those who like to make friends and help others can gather enough resources to make it through tough times.

I do not think that we spend nearly enough time trying to concentrate on achieving a sort of calmness, a sort of contentment in a mental and spiritual way, which was identified by these people as the highest form of happiness and pleasure.

Students who don’t get enough sleep have poor attendance and lower grades.

The teachers must be free to teach in their own way—the curriculum should be flexible enough so that they can use their individual talents to achieve the goals of the course.

The average international runway model has a body mass index ( ' , BMI) under 16—low enough to indicate starvation by the World Health Organization's standard.

One argument that you tend to hear a lot from the pro-tipping crowd seems logical enough: the service is better when waiters depend on tips, presumably because they see a benefit to successfully veiling their contempt for you.

Even more interesting is that the promise of a future reward was enough to make adults choose the smaller portion.

If you spend a little time digging for the right part-time jobs, you’ll save yourself time when you find a job that leaves you with enough time to get your school work done, too.

If you are a college student looking for work but worry you won’t have enough time to devote to academic subjects, consider working as a study hall or library monitor.

He says there are not enough buyers willing to pay more for the purple tea.

A part-time job is a good way to balance costs while ensuring there is enough time left over for both academic subjects and after-class activities.

They are rich enough to invest in nerds.

The intimate nature of genuine criticism implies something about who is able to give it, namely, someone who knows you well enough to show you how your mental life is getting in the way of good writing.

That means we need modest, realistic expectations, and we need to teach people to cook food that's good enough to share with family and friends.

It does not attach enough importance to task-based practice.

I was lucky enough to find a critic and teacher who was willing to make the journey of writing with me.

Conveniently, they are also the people who care enough to see you through this painful realization.

Considering that the government's standards are not nearly ambitious enough, the picture is clear: by not cooking at home, we're not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.

Until ships became large enough (and engines small enough) to mount two engines side by side, they needed to keep sails.

Human control of fire goes back far enough (over a million years) that evolution could have produced a genetic leaning towards fire as a central aspect of human life

Books—especially books the average person could afford—haven't been around long enough to produce evolutionary change in humans.

This emerging model is now big and disruptive (颠覆性的) enough for regulators and companies to have woken up to it

All computers do is fetch and work with numbers, he once explained, but do it fast enough and "the results appear to be magic".

Are there enough campus police to do the job?

In mixed schools boys feel compelled to act like men before they understand themselves well enough to know what that means, " the study reported.

You are not taking his mistakes seriously enough.

People just can't get enough of it.

However, many complain that their school libraries do not have enough up-to-date interesting books and magazines

The door into the family room isn't big enough.

Frankly, I've had enough of our canteen food

I knew then that as soon as I had enough money to get my own business going, I'll do it.

Rather, we would not have been likely to spend enough time getting to know each other due to the lack of immediately visible mutual interests

Oh, yes, but I wish I could have stayed awake long enough to see the whole thing.

And I suppose I've put it off long enough.

Now I have enough money to buy that piece of land I've had my eye on

He has got enough money to buy a house.

A part-time job is a good way to balance costs while ensuring there is enough time left over for both academic subjects and after-class activities.

As soon as it's safe enough to be outside, couriers (邮递员) start distributing accumulated mail on the still-accessible routes.

Conveniently, they are also the people who care enough to see you through this painful realization.

For instance, highway overpasses had to be high enough to allow trailers carrying military missiles to pass under them.

I cannot thank you enough for caring about Chauncy.

I was lucky enough to find a critic and teacher who was willing to make the journey of writing with me.

If you always compare yourself with others, you'll never feel good enough.

If you are a college student looking for work but worry you won't have enough time to devote to academic subjects, consider working as a study hall or library monitor.

If you spend a little time digging for the right part-time jobs, you'll save yourself time when you find a job that leaves you with enough time to get your school work done, too.

New evidence shows why getting enough sleep is a top priority.

Professor Goel already had eight teaching assistants, but that wasn't enough to deal with the overwhelming number of daily questions from students.

She also knew from previous work conducted on birds and dolphins that these animals put half of their brains to sleep at a time so that they can rest while remaining alert enough to avoid predators.

So large is the Pacific, covering 30% of the planet's surface, that the specific energy generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world.

Some colleges have what they call an "honor code", though if you are smart enough to get into these schools, you are either smart enough to get around any codes or hopefully, too ethical to consider doing so.

Starting last Saturday, chains big enough to fall under the rule will face penalties of up to 2, 000 dollars for not showing calorie information in a prominent spot on their menus, preferably next to the price.

Students who don't get enough sleep have poor attendance and lower grades.

The average international runway model has a body mass index BMI under 16—low enough to indicate starvation by the World Health Organization's standard.

The big tobacco companies have always insisted that they are frank with their customers about the dangers of smoking and provide them with enough detail to make an informed decision.

The company spent the last five years developing solar panels that are only about a quarter of an inch thick and are strong enough to stand up to heavy highway traffic without breaking or making the roads more slippery.

The EFK website states, "Our nation is not graduating enough engineers."

The intimate nature of genuine criticism implies something about who is able to give it, namely, someone who knows you well enough to show you how your mental life is getting in the way of good writing.

The teachers must be free to teach in their own way— the curriculum should be flexible enough so that they can use their individual talents to achieve the goals of the course.

The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.

Their babies retain the ability to produce their own chlorophyll, though they can't generate energy from sunlight until they've eaten enough algae to steal the necessary genes, which they can't yet produce on their own.

There are no special people, just people who put in enough hard work until something special happens.

We haven't got enough time to get there.

When your child throws her spoon on the floor for the sixth time as you try to feed her, and you say, "That's enough! I will not pick up your spoon again!" The child will immediately test your claim.

Unless renewables become cheap enough that substantial carbon deposits are left underground for a very long time, if not forever, the planet will likely be exposed to potentially catastrophic climate risks.

They had enough travel and outdoor-life experience.

Middle school is an important age because students have enough math capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven't really decided what they want to do with their lives, said Loh.

Most Americans don’t eat enough fruits, vegetables or whole grains.

There were no longer enough fish in the sea for the stock to maintain itself, let alone an industry.

But the data is exact enough for a clear trend to be easily discernible.

This is much like a non-smoker getting cancer from second-hand smoke, while the heavy smoker is fortunate enough to smoke in good health.

For instance, new technologies that are building upon existing technology have not found their footing well enough to appeal to a mass audience, because, in many cases, they need to work effectively with other devices to realize their full appeal.

By the end of the decade, it's expected to be worth over $50 billion and generate 160 gigawatt-hours, enough to attract the attention of major companies that might not otherwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technology.

But a new study finds that there's another group of adolescents who are in nearly as much danger of experiencing the same psychiatric symptoms: teens who use tons of media, don't get enough sleep and have a sedentary ( ' , 不爱活动的 ) lifestyle.

As if that were not enough, a Brazilian C-130 Hercules military transport plane has remained stranded near the runway of Chile's air base here since it crash-landed in 2014.

People physically fit enough to survive over 100 years ultimately give in to diseases such as Alzheimer’s, which affects the mind and cognitive function.

just perceiving norms is enough to cause people to adjust their behaviour in the direction of the crowd.

Other studies show that simply providing the facility for people to compare their energy use with the local average is enough to cause them to modify their behaviour.

Education has not paid enough attention to major environmental issues.

And while Rubinoff believes there are a good number of four-year schools that truly care about these students and set aside significant resources and programs for them, he says that number isn't high enough.

"In theory," says Vallentine, "this can create a high enough temperature to generate super-heated steam.

"middle school is an important age because students have enough math capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven't really decided what they want to do with their lives," said Loh.

"You can get enough protein and meet the RDA before you even get to dinner," says Pipitone.

According to Harry Vallentine, a Canadian engineer who is researching modern steam technology, a special tank measuring 2 by 10 metres could store over 750 kilowatt hours of energy as high pressure steam, enough to pull a two-cart train for an hour or so.

Although many people say the new Barbies are a step in the right direction, some people say they don't go far enough.

And that's going to affect us, as if we didn't have enough problems on our hands.

At the base of a mountain in Tanzania Gregory rift, Lake Natron burns bright red, surrounded by the remains of animals that were unfortunate enough to fall into the salty water.

Be sure to attend all classes and leave enough time to finish assignments and prepare well for examinations.

Because there was slightly more matter, the collisions quickly depleted all the anti-matter and left just enough matter to create stars, planets, and eventually us.

birds flock together, fish school together, cattle herd together...just perceiving norms is enough to cause people to adjust their behaviour in the direction of the crowd.

But Pennsylvania State Representative Scott Petri says governments simply do not have enough money to extend unemployment insurance.

By the end of the decade, it's expected to be worth over $50 billion and generate 160 gigawatt-hours, enough to attract the attention of major companies that might not otherwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technology.

Environmental conscientiousness isn't always enough to make customers recycle old goods.

Even if they get online traffic, they struggle to make enough money online to compensate for what they are losing offline.

For instance, new technologies that are building upon existing technology have not found their footing well enough to appeal to a mass audience, because, in many cases, they need to work effectively with other devices to realize their full appeal.

For starters, they said my credit history was not good enough.

Further complicating my college search was a flourishing track career—I wanted to keep running but my times weren't quite fast enough to secure a scholarship.

He realized instinctively that simply training harder would never be enough.

I always tell people to make sure they're drinking enough fluids, which for the average person is 60 to 70 ounces a day, which translates into eight 8-ounce glasses of water or liquid per day.

I have enough trouble delivering bikes to shops only forty miles away, never mind five thousand miles.

I was lucky enough to have my tuition covered by a lottery-funded scholarship called HOPE Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally.

If the farm is well managed and has enough land, and the desire to convert is sincere, a relationship can begin.

Interestingly enough, there's no agreed upon definition of Jazz.

Joseph's top priority became getting his hands on enough grass-fed milk to keep customers satisfied, since his own 64-cow herd wasn't going to suffice.

Let's hope they' re wise enough not to be fooled by a machine that claims to determine truthfulness at the flip of a switch.

Most Americans don't eat enough fruits, vegetables or whole grains.

Music, I don't especially love life on the road, but I figure if you are lucky enough to be able to do what you truly love doing, you've got the ultimate of life.

No need to, says Pipitone, because, in fact, most of us already get enough protein in our diet.

Once upon a time, Americans thought that if they work hard enough even in the face of adversity, they would be rewarded with success.

Perhaps enough insurance should be needed to cover their debts and burial expenses.

Probably the only life insurance he needs is enough to cover his debts and burial expenses.

Robots are currently under a two-year trial in Wales which will train "farmbots" to herd, monitor the health of livestock, and make sure there is enough pasture for them to graze on.

So far, machines have a pretty hard time emulating creativity, arbitrary enough not to be predicted by a computer, and yet more than simple randomness.

Sure enough, the Census Bureau just released data showing that online retail sales surged 15.2 percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016.

The Cascadia Earthquake Zone is big enough to compete with San Andreas it's been called the most dangerous fault in Americ, but it's much lesser known than its California cousin.

Their approach is flexible enough that in principle other important quality-of-life changes could be incorporated—for example, decreases in total emissions of pollutants and declines in crime rate.

These fears are mostly exaggerated: as with hysteria about genetic modification, we humans are generally wise enough to manage these problems with speed and care.

They simply looked at my credit history and determined it was not good enough.

This mood switch made no difference to the three-month-olds; but for the nine-month-olds, it was enough to renew their interest and they started looking again in the direction of the face.

We're unlikely to spend our last moments regretting that we didn't spend enough of our lives slaving away at work.

When the children are young, and depend upon the family for financial needs, families with modest incomes have difficulty providing enough life insurance to protect the mother and children.

Whether the technology is eventually deemed reliable enough for the courts will ultimately be decided by the judges.

After he was put on disability for a bad back, he bought a small farm in the country, just enough to grow food for the family.

At least there is enough good news, so it remains a good place for the residents to enjoy their life.

But no one does enough to limit exemptions.

Even if I weren't excited enough about free credits, news about our instructor was appealing enough to me.

For example, you may want to be a pilot but can't become one because your eyesight is not good enough.

Fortunately, after a brief stay in hospital, Ben was well enough to be allowed to leave and later the family met up for dinner.

Having enough fat and salt in your meals will reduce the urge to snack between meals and will improve the taste of your food.

He was very upset that he couldn't earn enough money to support his family.

However, a pocket dictionary doesn't contain enough entries to be adequate for college reference homework.

However, this is not enough to solve our problem.

I encountered many hikers who were headed to a distant camp-ground with just enough time to get there before dark.

If you understand enough of a book to enjoy it and want to go on reading it, that's enough for me.

If your home doesn't have enough window light, get more lamps and flood the place with brightness.

If you're lucky enough to land such an accommodation, though, be sure you're 100 percent on time.

In 1819, John realized that he didn't have enough money to pay his bills.

It was a thick enough book.

It was totally, completely enough for him.

Its ending is not good enough.

Let's not pick these peaches until this weekend so that they get sweet enough to be eaten.

Like many things in life, it's an ongoing process, and the best part of the process is that there's enough room for improvement, which means you'll just keep getting better and better.

Moreover, I can find out whether my reactions to an event are reasonable enough by reading about those of others on the Internet.

Naturally, shy people might not have enough confidence to start up conversations with strangers.

Of the nineteen recognized polar bear subpopulations, three are declining, six are stable, one is increasing, and nine lack enough data.

People were always doing things that annoyed her, and nothing was ever good enough.

Peter examined the box and, sure enough, it was completely covered in factory-sealed plastic.

She couldn't understand why some people had to live their lives without shelter or enough food.

She didn't think she knew it well enough.

She had learned enough about computer science.

She speaks itAlian well enough for her job.

Solving the safety problem well enough to move forward in AI seems to be possible but not easy.

Sometimes her family didn't have enough to eat.

Sure enough, she was reading Moby Dick, in the edition with woodcuts.

The city planner decided to build an underground drainage system, but there simply wasn't enough difference between the height of the ground level and the water level.

The living room was large enough for their piano.

The real museum lacked enough artwork to interest her.

The spoken languages were enough in all my interactions.

Then one night, gene told me he didn't have enough money to buy the feed.

There's nothing that ticks off a professor more than making him-or herself available for a custom office hour only to find that you don't care enough to come on time.

They all share a common addiction—food that is not just spicy, but not enough to make your mouth burn, your head spin and your eyes water.

To make sure you get enough Vitamin D—but still protect your skin—put on sunscreen right as you head outside.

Under such circumstances, smart firms need to find ways to let their employees have enough flexibility to manage their time efficiently.

We shared the brief that if you're fortunate enough to have success, you should put something back - he with his newman's own food and his hole in the wall camps for kids who are seriously ill, and me with sundance and the institute and the festival.

We've grown so used to this orange haze that the original glory of an unlit night--dark enough for the planet venus to throw shadow on earth.

When a new day breaks, the walls have given up their heat and are now cold enough to cool the house during the hot day; at the same time, they warm up again for the night.

While these are small in significant amounts, at the end of the year, you will have enough for an emergency fund, family celebration or holiday.

Your lives are busy enough doing homework, playing sports, making friends, seeking after your dreams.

We are fortunate that is it, because new educational systems there and putting enough people through them to improve economic performance would require two or three generations.

“So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote,“that I am tempted to define‘journalism’ as‘a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are'.

It’s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut.

But what will be the nature of that difference? Merely expanding the orchestra’s repertoire will not be enough.

Join the Club is filled with too much irrelevant detail and not enough exploration of the social and biological factors that make peer pressure so powerful.

Yet this enormous resource is not contributing enough to today's global challenges, including climate change, security, sustainable development and health.

But we are now knowledgeable enough to reduce many of the risks that threatened the existence of earlier humans, and to improve the lot of those to come.

As so often, the past holds the key to the future: we have now identified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our descendants will find themselves.

If the bar exam is truly a stern enough test for a would-be lawyer, those who can sit it earlier should be allowed to do so.

During their six- to twelve-week voyage, they subsisted on barely enough food allotted to them.

While Europe’s monarchies will no doubt be smart enough to survive for some time to come, it is the British royals who have most to fear from the Spanish example.

Enough of the implications are discernable, even obvious, so that the justices can and should provide updated guidelines to police, lawyers and defendants.

The London agents Stirling Ackroyd recently identified enough sites for half a million houses in the London area alone，with no intrusion on green belt.

So, what Kennedy was referring to was that while GDP has been the most common method for measuring the economic activity of nations , as a measure , it is no longer enough.

After the first installment, Dickens wrote to the artist and asked him to correct a drawing Dickens felt was not faithful enough to his prose.

It is not enough to say that the algorithms DeepMind develops will benefit patients and save lives.

"Carry a book with you at all times" can actually work, too-providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down.

"When I come home from a hard day's work, I often feel tired," Danaher says, adding,"In a world in which I don't have to work, I might feel rather different" - perhaps different enough to throw himself into a hobby or a passion project with the intensity

An awareness that they were being experimented upon seemed to be enough to alter workers' behavior by itself.

As so often, the past holds the key to the future: we have now identified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our descendant will find themselv

But while this may be true, it's not a good enough reason to condemn gap years.

Enough of the implications are discernible, even obvious, so that the justices can and should provide updated guidelines to police, lawyers and defendants.

Having made their wealth and their reputations elsewhere, they presumably have enough independence to disagree with the chief executive's proposals.

If you look hard enough, you'll find that many of the products we use every day—chewing gums, skin moisturizers, disinfecting wipes, air fresheners, water purifiers, health snacks, antiperspirants, colognes, teeth whiteners, fabric softeners, vitamins—are

In Scotland, for example, wind turbines provide enough electricity to power 95 percent of homes.

It is not enough to say that the algorithms Deep mind develops will benefit patients and save lives.

It's hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut.

Merely expanding the orchestra's repertoire will not be enough.

Not surprisingly, industry groups and states generally argue it goes too far; environmentalists say it doesn't go far enough.

So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism. Newman wrote that "I am tempted to define ‘journalism' as a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are."

So what Kennedy was referring to was that while GDP has been the most common method for measuring the economic activity of nations, as a measure, it is no longer enough.

Sure enough, firms'investment and R&D intensity were correlated with the happiness of the area in which they were headquartered.

The London agents Stirling Ackroyd recently identified enough sites for half a million houses in the London area alone, with no intrusion on green belt.

There're enough people to fill the jobs at McDonalds and other places where you don't need to have much skill.

Waiting lists increase all the time and we are simply not building enough new homes.

We are fortunate that is it, because building new educational systems there and putting enough people through them to improve economic performance would require two or three generations.

While Europe's monarchies will no doubt be smart enough to survive for some time to come, it is the British royals who have most to fear from the Spanish example.

You may proudly claim to only have frozen peas in the freezer-that's not good enough.

You won't be eating out a lot, but save your pennies and once every few months treat yourself to a set lunch at a good restaurant —￡1.75 a week for three months gives you ￡21 — more than enough for a three course lunch at Michelin-Starred Arbutus.