Better than nothing, but inadequate for sustaining a community.

总比没有好，但不足以维持一个社区。

It’s pretty inadequate for practical application and it leaves plenty of room for equivocation.

它对于实际应用来说是相当不足的，并且它留下了很大的模棱两可的空间。

Once again, thank you seems so inadequate for everything you have done for me. I am forever grateful.

再次感谢你为我所做的一切似乎不够充分。我永远感激不尽。

" The motive was inadequate for you, on account of you're a civilized man. But it was adequate for her" .

“动机对你来说是不够的， 因为你是一个文明人。但对她来说已经足够了” 。

And he maintains that arguments which lean on tradition alone are inadequate, for the same reason that tradition cannot, nowadays, justify polygamy or footbinding.

他断言，在当今社会，人们无法以传统作为实行一夫多妻制或是裹小脚的理由，同理，那些仅仅靠传统为论据是论证是站不住脚的。

Ferns can even thrive on a photosynthetic income that's inadequate for the small offspring of many tall trees, and thus the humble fern coexists with the tall timber above by competing on its own terms.

青苔甚至能够在不充足的光合作用下茂盛成长，谦卑的青苔可以和大树的后代并存，在与高大木材的竞争中坚固自己的地位。

Philip looked away, as he sometimes looked away from the great pictures where visible forms suddenly become inadequate for the things they have shown to us. He was happy; he was assured that there was greatness in the world.

菲利普把目光移开，就像他有时把目光从伟大的图画上移开一样，在那里，可见的形式突然变得不适合它们向我们展示的东西。他很高兴;他确信世界上有伟大。