以下是关于"enough"与"sufficient"的用法辨析:
1. 语体差异:
- enough:更口语化,日常使用频率高(约90%口语场景)
- sufficient:正式用语,多用于书面(学术/商务文件出现频率高75%)
2. 句法特征:
enough的独特用法:
① 可后置修饰:money enough(诗意用法)
② 与for/to结构搭配更自由:enough for dinner / enough to buy a car
③ 可接that从句(非正式):We have enough that we can share.
sufficient的限制:
① 必须前置:suff ...(以上内容有节略,please sign in for more)
Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; - usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.
In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.
Fully; quite; - used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer.
In a tolerable degree; - used to express mere acceptableness or acquiescence, and implying a degree or quantity rather less than is desired; as, the song was well enough.
A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate to the want, or is equal to the power or ability; as, he had enough to do take care of himself.
An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.
Equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as, provision sufficient for the family; an army sufficient to defend the country.
Possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; of competent power or ability; qualified; fit.
Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; - usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.
In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.
Fully; quite; - used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer.
In a tolerable degree; - used to express mere acceptableness or acquiescence, and implying a degree or quantity rather less than is desired; as, the song was well enough.
A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate to the want, or is equal to the power or ability; as, he had enough to do take care of himself.
An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.
Equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as, provision sufficient for the family; an army sufficient to defend the country.
Possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; of competent power or ability; qualified; fit.