Clinton said in the absence of an Iranian reply, it is premature to talk about what may happen if Tehran ultimately rejects the offer.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Purity, which is the absence of impurity, is a prerequisite for access to the holy or for holy status.

纯洁，不纯的反义词，是接近神圣或达到神圣状态的先决条件。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

In the absence of that, the states have actually taken action, over the past, maybe 5, 10 years

在这种法律空缺的情况下，各个州在过去的五到十年间已经采取了行动，

全球变暖与国力 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This was the first Summit of the Americas to be held in a Caribbean nation, and was notable for a virtual absence of protesters.

VOA: standard.2009.04.19

Why? Because there's more to life than just pleasure and the absence of pain, or so it seems to me.

为什么？因为生命不仅仅是,享受快乐，避免痛苦，我是这样认为。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Researchers at Duke University sifted through more than and found an absence of strong evidence that any of these approaches can make a big difference.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

So returning to Genesis 1, We have an absence of theology and mythology in the sense of a biography of God in this opening chapter And that means the absence of a meta-divine realm.

好，现在回到《创世纪》的第一章，这里并没有宗教信仰也没有神话传说,在开篇中也没有上帝的传记,这也就意味着没有一个无量的国度。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"It is not the absence of crisis. It is the manner in which the crisis is going to be met and resolved that defines a nation,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

In other words, in the absence of human agency, the first sacrifice for literary theory is the author, the idea of the author.

换句话说，由于不懂人类起源，文学理论的第一牺牲者,就是作家，作家的思想。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"I cannot feel comfortable by being here, because I feel ashamed of the fact that I am participating in the summit with the absence of Cuba,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

Similarly, just as we have symbols for the presence of sound and its length, we have symbols that represent the absence of sound.

类似的,既然我们有符号,来表示声音的频率和长度,我们也有表示静音的符号

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

They say they do not think Iran will engage seriously in the absence of what would be a fourth round of sanctions by the U.N.Security Council.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

While he points out that in our culture we feel very uncomfortable with the absence of words, with the absence of sound or noise.

他指出，在我们文化中沉默，让人不适。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The seven-member commission said it decided on the postponement unanimously, after agreeing that fair elections could not take place in the absence of proper voter registration lists.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

The absence of this smaller region tells you that this sample came from a sickle patient.

小片段的缺失就能告诉你,该样本是取自病人的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"On the operations we are having at the moment, it is completely wrong to say that the loss of lives has been caused by the absence of helicopters,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.22

Everybody knows the water would continue in a straight line, suggesting that when you have experience that helps you out, but in absence of experience you're kind of lost.

所有人都知道水会继续沿直线喷出,这说明经验能够帮助你正确解决问题,但缺乏经验会使你感到困惑

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Most electoral observers believe the vote was fair despite irregularities that included security forces at polling stations, some ballot boxes not being properly sealed, and the absence of opposition representatives during some vote counting.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

There's the hard sphere. It wants to collide against the wall to create a force on the wall, and I have a couple of the hard spheres that are nearby, right, and in the absence of any interactions, I get a certain pressure.

给墙一个作用力,现在它的附近，还有许多小球,没有相互作用时,它将直接冲向这面墙。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Later,at a briefing for reporters, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs P.J.Crowley said the United States had warned the deposed president not to try to return home in the absence of a negotiated settlement.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Liberty means the absence of constraints or impediments to action.

现代自由意味着人们的行动,将免于他人的妨碍或是国家的强制约束。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And women are three times as likely as men to work in informal economies, and therefore abuse,sex trafficking and the absence of legal rights and protections for women are still unacceptably commonplace in so many places around the world."

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

In the solitude, the solitude of that absence, the boy uses the tree to work his will playfully.

在这样的孤独里，缺席的孤独里，这个孩子用树来玩。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But I think as time went on after the Rose Revolution, I think he wanted to perpetuate this kind of system in which there was really absence of checks and balances, no real opposition included in the political process very much sort of governing by committee of the inner circle, of loyal allies around the president.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

But there is an absence of what Kaufman would call this meta-divine realm, this primordial realm from which the gods emerge.

这里也没有Kaufman所说的,无量的国度，这是众神诞生的国度。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Leaving only a handful that survived. Flight Eleven and One Seventy-Five with the illegal medications that overdosed our population, led us to receive a leave of absence for an unnecessary vacation and we became addicts.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

suppose we make for, the moment, the bold conjecture, the philosophical claim, that not only is pleasure and the absence of pain, not only is pleasure one good thing and pain one bad thing.

假设此刻我们做出大胆猜测，哲学声称，不仅只,快乐和没有痛苦，快乐不止是一样好的东西，痛苦不止是一样坏的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The host,Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi made no mention of Mr.Ahmedinejad's absence in his brief opening address.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

The defiling effect of lesser transgressions is calibrated to the sinner's intentionality and the presence or absence of repentance.

相对较轻的犯罪带来的亵渎影响,随罪人的犯罪动机,是否出席祭祀仪式和是否悔改而变化。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

After all, not having the meal is just an absence of a certain experience.

毕竟，不吃饭是对某种经历的缺乏。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选