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Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

不够 [búgòu]
  1. 1. not enough; insufficient; inadequate
    分析不够深入。
    The analysis lacks depth.
    准备不够
    be inadequately prepared

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

不够 [búgòu]
  1. 1. 表示(数量、程度、质量等)达不到要求
    不够漂亮
    处理不够妥当
    不够一斤
  2. 2. 不充足
    材料不够
    思想准备不够

Examples

不要总是抱怨别人对你帮助不够
Don't always complain that you haven't been given enough help.
这家医院医生不够,病人太多。
This hospital has not enough doctors and too many patients.
准备不够
be inadequately prepared
这张照片不够大。
The picture isn't large enough.
你钱够不够
Do you have enough money?
不够意思
unfriendly; ungrateful
这间屋子光线不够
There's not enough light in this room.
难道我们交学费不够吗? 应该有些长进了!
Surely we've paid dearly for our mistakes and should have learnt something from them!
晚会的节目安排得不够紧凑。
The programme for the evening party was not well organized.

Collocations

不够丰富
not abundant enough
不够完善
not perfect enough
远远不够
not seriously enough
不够
be always seeing without disgust
难度不够
not difficult enough
准备不够
not prepare fully

Word Decomposition


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