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- insufficient
- lacking
- deficiency
- not enough
- inadequate
- not worth
- cannot
- should not
Trad. 不足為慮
- to give no cause for anxiety; nothing to worry about
Trad. 不足為訓
- not to be taken as an example
- not an example to be followed
- not to be taken as authoritative
Trad. 不足齒數
- not worth mentioning
- not worth considering
Trad. 貪心不足
- avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied
- to suffer from a congenital deficiency; to have an inherent weakness
- everything is fine except for one small defect (idiom); the fly in the ointment
- to be too petty or insignificant to mention
- to not be worth mentioning (idiom)
Trad. 不足為外人道
- (idiom) no need to tell others; let's keep this between ourselves
- also pr. [bu4zu2 wei2 wai4ren2 dao4]
Trad. 學然後知不足
- to learn is to know one's ignorance (the Book of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4])
Trad. 心有餘而力不足
- the will is there, but not the strength (idiom)
- the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
Trad. 心有餘，力不足
- The will is there, but not the strength (idiom, from Confucian Analects).
- I really want to do it, but don't have the resources.
- The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
- a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant (idiom)
Trad. 注意力不足過動症
- attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Trad. 比上不足，比下有餘
- neither the best nor the worst; not too bad; better than some
Trad. 成事不足，敗事有餘
- unable to accomplish anything but liable to spoil everything (idiom)
- unable to do anything right
- never make, but always mar
Trad. 先天不足，後天失調
- to be born with a weak constitution and suffer from ill health during one's life
- (fig.) to be problematic from the start, and get even worse over time