But on Thursday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned lawmakers that lack of action to raise the borrowing limit would mean a lower credit rating.

VOA: special.2011.07.15

But this is where for lack of a better term non-western countries really formally challenged at the highest levels and the lowest, too.

之所以这么说，是因为找不到更好的表达方式了,这表明非西方国家,从最高层面和最低层面都提出了挑战。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

You can use this to express possession or a lack of possession of anything. Tangible or intangible.

你可以用它来表示你有或没有什么东西。有形与无形的事物都可以通用。

I have 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Violence and a lack of a police department soon caused problems.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

You have some kind of a lord, I mean a king, for lack of a better name, a monarch who fundamentally rules and everybody is subject to him.

你会想到领主,也就是国王,我想不出更好的说法了,统治者制定规则,一切都要臣服于他

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

She says the lack of attention and self-control that mark A.D.H.D.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

So, Humbert's lack of a moral vocabulary to understand what he's doing makes it seems like it's trivialized.

所以，Humbert缺乏对道德准则的理解,他所做的事情让这一切似乎被平凡化了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Goldstone said the lack of accountability for war crimes and possible crimes against humanity has reached a crisis point.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

To question those beliefs would seem to exhibit a kind of lack of civic faith faith in our ruling opinions.

如果质疑这些信念,似乎是表现出缺乏公民信仰,对我们统治主张的信仰。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

caution: if there is a sense of a lack of a U.S.commitment, NATO and Pakistan will hedge and pull back.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

This lack of emotions on this on a TV series does not hurt them much.

缺少情感,在电视连续剧中对它们不会有太多伤害。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It shows there is a lack of a political will to really fight corruption."

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

There is a blunting in this activation, and this blunting is correlated with this schizophrenic self-reported lack of desire negative symptorms.

这部分的活动被关闭了，而这种关闭活动的结果和精神分裂症患者,缺少欲望症状的报告相符。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

"So if you have a combination of a silent condition, a combination of lack of access to early detection methods, then what you get, when women find they have something, usually the tumor has grown, has metastasized."

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

It was also caused by just a general lack of confidence.

它同时也是由于,缺乏自信导致的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A lack of access to Cuba,says GAO, has made it difficult to obtain nationally representative data on audience size, and decision-makers have had limited information to assess the relative success or return on investment for each transmission method.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

Nature is a meaningless concept just like the lack of meaning within nature, where there's no culture until culture comes along and says, "Oh, not so much there is nature, but I'm terribly unhappy because before I came along, there was nature." Right?

自然是个没有意义的概念,正如自然之中意义的缺乏，自然中原本没有文明，直到文明走过来说，“哦，自然的存在并不算什么，我很不高兴的是因为,我来之前，这里就有自然了“，是吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"But I do think that in general we have seen a shift from, for lack of a better term, professionalized terrorist operations to those that are conducted by not exactly amateurs, but folks with less training and less capability generally, technical capability."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

Then there are some who say the real problem here is the lack of consent, whether the lack of consent to a lottery, to a fair procedure or, Kathleen's idea, lack of consent at the moment of death.

还有人认为,真正的问题在于，没有征得同意，不管是没有征得同意抽签，用公平程序进行,或者是凯思琳所说，没有征得派克的同意杀他。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

For example, one of the symptoms is a lack of feeling in one part of the body or another.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

to express a lack of complete knowledge about the multitude of subjects.

它可以用来表达你对一些话题并不完全了解。

I don't know 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Several years later, researchers discovered the exact cause of pellagra: a lack of the B vitamin known as niacin.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

The dietary laws are presented by the priests not as a sensible way to avoid various diseases that are caused by the lack of refrigeration in the desert.

饮食教规并不是被祭司们,并不是作为一个规避疾病的方法出现的,这些疾病是由于沙漠地区缺水造成的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He said girls in one Dakar school told him about a lack of bathrooms and textbooks for them, and bullying from boys.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

For the course's website, help@cs net there'll be support forms and an email address, help@cs50.net, that you can turn to and frankly this is more a commentary on our lack of social lives during the term.

对于课程网站，我们有支持表格和邮箱地址，有什么问题可以求助去它,这更像是在评论我们的学习生活太缺乏社交活动。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

An official from Kenya, Adam Barre Duale,said it showed a lack of unity in the fight against hunger.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

The solution to that might be a kind of amnesia, a kind of progressive lack of memory.

也许可以用健忘症来解决，一种持续的记忆缺失。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The lack of snow will not be a problem for events being held at the ski area in the city of Whistler.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

And we pay a price for this lack of stillness.

我们为缺乏安静付出了代价。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

and there's a huge lack of middle class,

中层阶级很少，

生活费偏高 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人