| 词组 | deficient |
| 释义 | deficient When deficient is used with a preposition, the preposition is almost always in: • The report that Diggory had brought of the wedding ... was deficient in one significant particular — Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, 1878 • But this view is held to be deficient in intelligence, liberalism, and democracy —Lionel Trilling, in Forms of Modern Fiction, ed. William Van O'Connor, 1948 In our files there is just a single instance of deficient used with of: • ... with scant need for imagination, of which she was very deficient —The Encyclopedia Americana, 1943 See also defective, deficient. |
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