inadequate supplies
供应短缺
The system is inadequate for the tasks it has to perform.
这个系统要完成它的任务还不够完善。
The food supplies are inadequate to meet the needs of the hungry.
食物供应还不足以应付饥民的需求。
I felt totally inadequate as a parent.
我觉得我作为父亲（或母亲）完全不称职。
1.不适当的;不充足的
1.not enough, or not good enough for a particular purpose
2.someone who is inadequate does not feel confident that they can deal with the situation they are in
1.The Japanese had launched against the Philippines an air attack that quickly reduced our inadequate air forces to practical impotence.
日本已向菲律宾采取空中攻势，使我们原极薄弱的空军丧失其战斗力。
2.First, that dedicated funding could prove inadequate, forcing the program either to cut benefits or to turn to Congress for aid.
第一，专项资金被证明不够，迫使该机制要么削减受益金，要么转而向国会寻求帮助。
3.Light, for instance, had been heretofore described as a wave yet some experiments were suggesting this was an inadequate model.
比如在此之前，光被解释为一种波，但是一些实验结果表明这个模型并不完善。
4.However, the problem of low quality and inadequate quantity of rural teachers has always been a "bottleneck" in American education.
然而，教师质量低下和数量短缺的问题却一直是美国教育中的一个瓶颈。
5.Answer (B) is incorrect because unforeseen obstacles cannot be anticipated and do not necessarily indicate that planning was inadequate.
选项（B）错误的原因是不可抗力因素本身是不可预知的，而且它并不表示计划就是不适当的。
6.He had a whole discussion about these kinds of problems, but the point was he said in the end, the sensory base of knowledge is inadequate.
他有一个对整个讨论这类问题，但问题是他最后说，基础知识是不够的感觉。
7.Yet the quality of information filtering through to senior managers is often inadequate.
然而那些由高端经理过滤过的信息质量通常都不太令人满意。
8.For a discussion of stars our language is inadequate and seems laughable, as if someone were trying to plow with a feather.
因为我们人类的语言不适合论述星辰，否则会显得可笑，就如同某些人想用羽毛去犁地一样。
9.the top us trade officials said the lack of transparency and inadequate notice may violate world trade organization rules.
前美国贸易官员表示，缺乏透明度和不足，通知可能违反世界贸易组织的规则。
10.A humble person tends to suffer from solitude, felling himself inadequate company, longing for others to be around.
感觉谦卑的人往往易受孤独的折磨，感觉仅仅与自己相处远远不够，渴望有人作伴。