The chief source of all this passion is that thought for what is absent and future, which, with man, exercises such a powerful influence upon all he does.
这种激情的主要来源是对所缺少的和未来的思考，这种思考和人一起，对他所做的一切产生了如此强有力的影响。
Absent a bubble, there is no tendency for IOs to be used.
如果不存在泡沫，就没有使用IOS的倾向。
Absent a deal by August 2, the United States risks defaulting on its national debt.
如果到8月2日还没有达成一项协议，美国将面临国债违约的风险。
Paula Souza, the school's director, says that 40% of the teachers are absent at least one day a week.
学校校长保罗•苏扎（音译）说40%的老师一周至少缺课一天。
Absent a firm solution, Veronica's expression of frustration with Brotherhood leadership would lead to her banishment.
但由于缺乏一个行之有效的解决办法，维罗妮卡对兄弟会领导层表达的失望情绪最终导致了她的被放逐。
Absent a pledge by Israel to maintain the building moratorium, the Palestinians refused to come to the negotiating table.
因为缺少以色列保持停工状态的承诺，巴勒斯坦拒绝来到谈判桌旁。
Absent a board of directors, the executive director of a limited liability company shall be the legal representative thereof.
有限责任公司不设董事会的，执行董事为公司的法定代表人。
Simple game theory suggests that a sub-optimal result is almost inevitable absent a policeman to bully participants into good behaviour.
简单的游戏原理似乎暗示，潜在的最佳结论必然是，现在缺少一个警察来强迫参与者做规矩之事。
Absent a specified option, the default is the legacy DOM technique, but future code should specify explicitly in case the default changes.
由于缺少指定的选项，缺省选项是使用旧的DOM技术，但今后的代码应该明确指定，以防缺省选项有所更改。
While he was absent a half-starved wolf appeared on the scene, and went up to the plough and began chewing the leather straps attached to the yoke.
这时，一只饿得半死的狼出现了，他走到犁旁边，开始咀嚼牛轭上的皮套。
Absent a deal to cut the deficit and slow the growth rate of the national debt, many Republicans say they will not vote to increase the debt ceiling.
共和党人说，如果就削减赤字、降低国债增长幅度达不成一项协议，他们将不会投票支持提高国债上限。
Relationships expert Jean Hannah Edelstein said that unless both partners are commuting, then the commuting partner is going to be absent a lot of the time.
除非夫妻双方都需往返上班，否则那个通勤的人将会错过很多两人的时光，关系专家吉恩-汉娜-艾德斯坦恩说。
Reporter: you've expressed concerns about your own failings as a husband and a father, particularly with being absent a lot and Michelle being angry about it.
记者：你表达了自己作为丈夫和父亲的失败的担心，尤其是你经常不在家，米歇尔对此很生气。
History is not a controlled experiment and so we cannot know exactly what would have happened absent a particular Supreme Court decision (or any other event for that matter).
历史是一个不受控制的试验，我们不能确切地知道如果没有最高法院的判决(或其它与之有关的任何事件)将会发生什么。
The domestic tyre industry has multiple alternative markets to China from which to import tyres that are more competitive than the us, absent a dramatic restructuring of our industrial base.
如果美国不对国内的轮胎业基地进行大规模重组，那么除中国外还存在多个替代性市场，从那里进口的轮胎要比美国生产的更具竞争力。
In this context, we cannot ignore the fact that coal, absent a quantum technological shift, is likely to remain the major fuel for energy generation in China and India through to mid-century.
在此背景下，我们不能忽视的一个事实是，如果没有巨大的技术变革，煤炭直到本世纪中叶都将会是中国和印度能源生产的主要燃料。
Realistically, G.D.P. growth of one per cent this year and two per cent next year seems about the best that can be hoped for, and, absent a policy change, an even worse outcome can’t be ruled out.
这样看来，即使是今年有1%的增长和明年2%的增长预期都是好的。 再加上若政策有所变化，还有可能出现更糟的结果。
Old established friends are notably absent, so it's a good opportunity to make new contacts.
老朋友们显然都已不在身边，所以这是结交新朋友的一个好机会。
Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absent minded actions for a fortnight.
史密斯教授最近说服了35人，其中23人是女性，在两周内让他们把自己所有心不在焉的行为记在日记里。
Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for a fortnight.
史密斯教授最近说服了35人，其中23人是女性，让他们把自己在两周内所有心不在焉的行为记在日记里。
Elizabeth absent-mindedly picked a thread from his lapel.
伊丽莎白心不在焉地从他的翻领上拈起了一根线。
As we're too absent-minded by what's happening in the virtual some of us have lost conversational skills and sometimes can't even tell whether a person is happy or not.
由于我们对虚拟世界中发生的事情太过心不在焉，我们中的一些人已经失去了交谈技巧，有时甚至无法分辨一个人是否快乐。
Another common episode of absent-mindedness was walking into a room and wondering why you're there.
另一种常见的心不在焉现象是：走进一个房间，不知道自己为什么在那里。
Most episodes of absent-mindedness—forgetting where you left something or wondering why you just entered a room are caused by a simple lack of attention.
大多数健忘的发作——忘记你把东西放在哪里了，或者忘记你进入一个房间是想干嘛——都是由简单的缺乏注意力引起的。
A startling finding of the research is that the absent minded activity is a hazard of doing things in which we are skilled.
这项研究的一个惊人发现是，在做我们擅长的事情时心不在焉是危险的。
Two students are absent because they have a cold.
两个学生因为感冒缺席了。
A handful of Africa's unique island mammal families that were present 26 million years ago are absent from sites younger than Mush.
在比 Mush更年轻的遗址中，不少2600万年前只属于非洲大陆的哺乳科动物消失了。
A careful reading of the text reveals that most of the firstborn children in the sample were from single-parent homes in which the father was absent.
仔细阅读文本就会发现，样本中大多数头生子女都来自没有父亲的单亲家庭。
A careful reading of the text reveals that most of the firstborn children in the sample were from single-parent homes in which the father was absent.
仔细阅读文本就会发现，样本中大多数头生子女都来自没有父亲的单亲家庭。
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