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| 1 | good enough or large enough for a particular purpose 足够的；胜任的；适当的 |
| The state needs to maintain an adequate supply of trained teachers. 国家需要维持足够数量的训练有素的教师。 |
| +for The big house is perfectly adequate for just the two of us. 对于就我们这两人来说，这大房子绰绰有余了。 |
| adequate to do sth Existing levels of funding are not adequate to deal with this problem. 现有的拨款水平不足以处理这个问题。 |
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| 2 | satisfactory , but not extremely good 勉强够的；尚可的 |
| a merely adequate knowledge of the subject 对此学科还算不错的了解 |
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| adequately adv |
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