As a writer he seemed to lack creative spark.

作为作家，他似乎缺少创作激情。

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Data is said to lack an emotion chip.

据说，数据缺少情感芯片。

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However the plan was dropped due to lack of funds.

然而，由于缺乏资金，这个计划被放弃了。

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Farmers lack enough inputs to maintain soil fertility is parts of many developing countries, especially in Africa south of the Sahara.

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How is it that some people came to acquire this capacity for rational self-control that is necessary for freedom ? and others seem to lack it?

为何有些人,会拥有这种理性自控的能力,那也是自由的必备条件,但有些人却似乎不具备这种能力？

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To question those beliefs would seem to exhibit a kind of lack of civic faith faith in our ruling opinions.

如果质疑这些信念,似乎是表现出缺乏公民信仰,对我们统治主张的信仰。

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Hull pressed hard for a late equaliser but continued to lack the killer instinct in the final third.

BBC: Hull 0-2 Cardiff

Mice engineered to lack myostatin get far bulkier than if they are given steroids.

FORBES: Bioengineering The Perfect Athlete

New York seemed to lack the required energy and urgency to take advantage in Game 4.

WSJ: Relaxed Bruins look to finish Rangers in Game 4