The general point here is that people are much more absent-minded than they think.

一个普遍的观点是人们要比他们所认为的更心不在焉。

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The successful 3-point shooting that had been a large part of China's pair of wins was absent in the first half against Greece.

上半场，中国队的3分球蒸发掉了，而这是他们前几场的重要得分手段。

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To support his point of view, the author cited a study which showed a less likeihood for the students eating breakfast to be absent than other children.

论者得出结论的前提是认为上课前吃早餐能减少孩子迟到旷课。

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Yet the deeper moral point, absent from both sides, is this one: The rich deserve their wealth as much as anyone, the relatively-higher tax rates they face are obscenely unjust, and if anything, the rich today should be paying radically lower tax rates.

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Absent as he was, Mr Salmond was unable to intervene to point out that he had been cleared of breaching the Ministerial Code on that issue.

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