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

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

As a closing remark, you can express your excitement at finally being able to see your loved one after such a long absence.

作为结束的话，你可以表达一下这么久以来即将见到心爱的人的激动心情。

I can't 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But in the absence of any service, we have found that it is able to remove that barrier in some cases."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

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

But,the Brazilians have so much talent and depth that Elano's absence is not expected to have much impact.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

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

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

Who are they to us? We find it difficult to bewail their absence.

他们是谁？，我们发现很难为他们的离去悲叹。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

It's his absence that leaves the boy alone to his own devices.

正是他的缺席让这个孩子一个人,玩自己的玩具。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Key Camara ally Defense Minister Sekouba Konate returned early from a trip to Lebanon and is now running the military council in Captain Camara's absence.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

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

"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

The reason is because there are two different approaches to deal with illness: one,the positive psychological approach is that the illness is the absence of health, as opposed to health is the absence of illness.

究其原因，是因为有两种不同的方法,对付疾病，一是积极心理学方法,它指的是，疾病相当于不健康，相对地，健康等于没疾病。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"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

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

After several greetings and handshakes, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez described Mr.Obama as "an intelligent man" and said he wants to return an ambassador to Washington after a seven-month absence.

VOA: standard.2009.04.19

The inhabitants seem to have been peasant farmers, like other Canaanites. One interesting difference is the absence of any pig bones, which is kind of interesting.

这些居住者们好像曾是农民，就像其他迦南人一样，一个有趣的差异是,没有猪骨头的出现，这很有意思。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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

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

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

Venezuelan President Chavez threatened to refuse to sign the declaration to protest Cuba's absence from the hemispheric gathering, and to protest the document's failure - as it is now reportedly written - to demand an end to the U.S.embargo of the island.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

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