enough
英 [?'n?f]
美[?'n?f]
- adv. 足夠地，充足地
- n. 很多；充足
- adj. 充足的
- int. 夠了！
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中文詞源
enough 足夠的
來自古英語genog, 足夠。ge-, 強調，-nog, 達到，來自PIE*nok, 達到，足夠。
英文詞源
- enough
- enough: [OE] Enough is a widespread word in the Germanic languages. German has genug, Dutch genoeg, and Swedish and Danish the reduced forms nog and nok. All go back to a prehistoric Germanic *ganōgaz, a compound formed from the collective prefix *ga- and an Indo-European element *nak- whose underlying meaning is probably ‘reach, attain’ (it occurs in Sanskrit na and Latin naniscī, both of which have that sense).
- enough (adj.)
- c. 1300, from Old English genog "sufficient in quantity or number," from Proto-Germanic compound *ganoga- "sufficient" (cognates: Old Saxon ginog, Old Frisian enoch, Dutch genoeg, Old High German ginuog, German genug, Old Norse gnogr, Gothic ganohs).
First element is Old English ge- "with, together" (also a participial, collective, intensive, or perfective prefix), making this word the most prominent surviving example of the Old English prefix, the equivalent of Latin com- and Modern German ge- (from PIE *kom- "beside, near, by, with;" see com-). Second element is from PIE *nok-, from root *nek- (2) "to reach, attain" (cognates: Sanskrit asnoti "reaches," Hittite ninikzi "lifts, raises," Lithuanian ne?ti "to bear, carry," Latin nancisci "to obtain").
As an adverb, "sufficiently for the purpose," in Old English; meaning "moderately, fairly, tolerably" (good enough) was in Middle English. Understated sense, as in have had enough "have had too much" was in Old English (which relied heavily on double negatives and understatement). As a noun in Old English, "a quantity or number sufficient for the purpose." As an interjection, "that is enough," from c. 1600. Colloquial 'nough said is attested from 1839.
雙語例句
- 1. Three hundred million dollars will be nothing like enough.
- 3億美元遠遠不夠。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The plan is good; the problem is it doesn't go far enough.
- 計劃不錯；問題在于不夠深入。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. America has enough firepower in the area to mount sustained air strikes.
- 美國在該地區擁有足夠的火力發動持續的空中打擊。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. McGregor's effort was enough to edge Johnson out of the top spot.
- 麥格雷戈奮力一搏，成功地將約翰遜從第一的位置上擠了下來。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. I met him only the once, and that was enough.
- 我就見過他那一次，那就讓我受夠了。
來自柯林斯例句