Sufficiency

(noun.) the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; 'he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence'.

(noun.) sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations; 'her father questioned the young suitor's sufficiency'.

布兰得利整理

• She envied them some spontaneity, a childish sufficiency to which she herself could never approach. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It was a lack of robust self, she had no natural sufficiency, there was a terrible void, a lack, a deficiency of being within her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Their food, as I afterwards found, was coarse, but it was wholesome; and they procured a sufficiency of it. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• In the worst seasons they have always had a sufficiency for themselves, though less for exportation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Mrs. Norris, being not at all inclined to question its sufficiency, began to take the matter in another point. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The scheme was put into working order at once, and a sufficiency of provisions was made ready for the adventurers. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Their sufficiency decreased with knowledge, they wanted more. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• But the Popes during their centuries of power were always raging against the slightest reflection upon the intellectual sufficiency of the church. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They might have been exciting, however, if we had chosen to drink a sufficiency of them. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• She had a perfect calm sufficiency, an easy indifference to any criticism whatsoever, as if she were beyond it. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• In those good old times, it was a regular household care to provide a sufficiency of tinder, to see that it was kept dry, and that there was a proper flint with fire in it. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• He went quickly along towards Shortlands, in a grateful self-sufficiency. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

校对:鲁本