She is absent today. Can she be ill again?

今天她没来，莫非又生了病不成？

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Two students are absent today.

今天有两位学生缺席。

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So why is Fukuyama’s name absent today?

那为什么今天福山的名字缺席了呢？

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Now, two Democrats who opposed the measure were absent today as was Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel who's often voted against the Bush administration.

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If we were building the Net from the ground up knowing what we know today, authentication might have figured into the core in a way absent today.

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What's absent from today's economic discourse is the concept of consumer and investor confidence in a nation's government and economy.

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