They were pointedly absent from the news conference.

他们有意缺席了那场新闻发布会。

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Love was totally absent from his childhood.

他童年时根本没有得到过爱。

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The pictures, too, were absent from the walls.

那些照片也不在那些墙上了。

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Three legislators were absent from the vote. It is the first time a government is ousted since the country came to existence, after the breakup of the former Czechoslovakia in 1993.

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God is the Dieu cache: God is the hidden God who is absent from the world and is, in effect, also the structure of the world. The same thing can be said of man.

上帝隐藏起来了：,上帝是隐藏于世界之外，同时，又是世界的结构，人类亦如此。

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His parents were very much absent from his growing-up life.

在他的成长过程中，他的父母并没有参与太多。

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Shulman has been conspicuously absent from any public discussion of the tax whistleblower program.

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With big pharma in many cases absent from the game, biotech entered the field.

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But high-end private homes have been conspicuously absent from most portfolios of the country's greatest architects.

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