n. adequate supply,modest allowance适当的供应,不太多的津贴。 competence of life: sufficient allowance,means of li-velihood,money to live on足够的津贴,生活资料,生活费用。 △ 2H.Ⅳ.5.5.71(66): “For competence of life Iwill allow you,/That lack of means enforce you notto evils,”至于生活费用,我会供给你的,免得你因为缺少钱用而去为非作歹。