enough
要点不足のない、十分な量(数)、十分に
意味
- 不足のない,十分な
- 十分な量(数),足りる量
- 十分に(sufficiently)
- 全く,すっかり
- もうたくさんだ,やめてくれ(Stop!)
例文
I cannot thank you enough for all your kindness.
ご親切に対してお礼の申し上げようもありません。
I couldn't run fast enough to keep up with them.
私は彼らに遅れずに付いて行けるほど速くは走れなかった。
Sometimes it's enough simply to nod in response.
返事は、頷くだけで事足りる時もあります。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English ynogh, from Old English ġenōg (“enough”), from Proto-Germanic *ganōgaz (“enough”) (compare Scots eneuch, West Frisian genôch, Dutch genoeg, German genug, Low German (ge)noog, Danish nok, Swedish nog, Icelandic nógur), from *ganuganą 'to suffice' (compare Old English ġeneah), or from *ga- + an unattested *nōgaz, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂nó(n)ḱe (“he has reached, attained”), perfective of *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”) (compare Old Irish tánaic (“he arrived”), Latin nancisci (“to get”), Albanian kënaq (“to please, satisfy”)).