These are notable not for the absence of food, but for the kind of food available.

这些地方最显著的特点不是食物短缺，而是可以取得的食物种类的匮乏。

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And though she did what she could to make up for the absence of a father, for me, the absence was inescapable.

尽管母亲尽了最大努力来弥补父亲缺失对我们的造成损伤，但是对我来说，父亲的缺失是一个绕不过的坎。

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It is obvious what has made this desire so intense: the subconscious need to compensate for the absence of the opposite pole-truth.

到底什么造成了这种渴望是显而易见的：潜意识中对于某种现实中所缺乏的截然相反的东西所产生的补偿的需要-这种所缺乏的东西就是真实。

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Leaving only a handful that survived. Flight Eleven and One Seventy-Five with the illegal medications that overdosed our population, led us to receive a leave of absence for an unnecessary vacation and we became addicts.

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Purity, which is the absence of impurity, is a prerequisite for access to the holy or for holy status.

纯洁，不纯的反义词，是接近神圣或达到神圣状态的先决条件。

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In other words, in the absence of human agency, the first sacrifice for literary theory is the author, the idea of the author.

换句话说，由于不懂人类起源，文学理论的第一牺牲者,就是作家，作家的思想。

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Women form rotating credit systems to compensate for the absence of an accessible banking system.

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He placed all the blame for the absence of a peace process on Netanyahu's shoulders.

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By placing the blame for the absence of negotiations on Netanyahu, like the Palestinians, Livni rejected Netanyahu's demand.

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