The first speakers at the conference criticized Prof. Johnson's new programme for lack of definition.

会上的首批发言者批评约翰逊教授的新项目没有清晰度。

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Though young people lack working experience, they are full of energy and new ideas.

尽管年轻人缺乏工作经验，但是他们充满活力和新的想法。

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Sociologist Catherine Kohler Riessman reports in her new book Divorce Talk that most of the women she interviewed—but only a few of the men—gave lack of communication as the reason for their divorces.

社会学家凯瑟琳·科勒·里斯曼在她的新书《离婚谈话》中写道，她采访的大多数女性——只有少数男性——认为缺乏沟通是他们离婚的原因。

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In it she deals with the lack of honesty that lies behind the apparent innocence of the New York social world.

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Like the Russian formalists--and in a way like the New Critics -talking about their "academic" colleagues, Saussure is vexed by the messiness and lack of system in the study of linguistics.

这一点和形式主义者，新批评论者,这些学院派的人们很相像，索绪尔对语言学的杂乱,和无章感到恼火。

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A new report warns that promising developments in HIV prevention could be undermined by funding gaps and a lack of political will.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

The new contracts lack the security a new legal structure would grant, and Iraqi lawmakers have argued that they run contrary to existing law, which requires government control, operation, and ownership of Iraq's oil sector.

CNN: Why the war in Iraq was fought for Big Oil

Some are common to all financial innovations: new products lack enough liquidity to lure buyers in, for example.

ECONOMIST: Bricks and slaughter

Worse still, Mr Cowen reckons that the gains from two centuries of rapid technological innovation are largely exhausted, and that new discoveries lack the same revolutionary quality.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus