Woods and his wife Elin are reportedly in counseling. She was conspicuously absent on Friday.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

I mean, you would expect that the group one, absent hydrogen, would be the ones that would have the least.

我想，你们可能认为第一主族，没有氢，而氢应该是最小的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But, it doesn't guarantee it, because absent further argumentation, there's no guarantee that the soul survives the death of the body.

但这不能保证,由于缺乏进一步的论证,我们无法保证,在肉体死亡后灵魂仍然存活

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

University-level research papers, she says,are now being peppered with casual phrases like "you know" and words like "guy" informal usages that were absent almost a decade ago.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

God is the Dieu cache: God is the hidden God who is absent from the world and is, in effect, also the structure of the world. The same thing can be said of man.

上帝隐藏起来了：,上帝是隐藏于世界之外，同时，又是世界的结构，人类亦如此。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Three legislators were absent from the vote. It is the first time a government is ousted since the country came to existence, after the breakup of the former Czechoslovakia in 1993.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

The other character that's mentioned in the poem is the boy's father, whose trees they are, the property owner, who also is absent.

这首诗里提到的其他人是他的爸爸，这些树就是他爸爸的，这些财产的拥有者，但也没有出现。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Negotiations with the House of Representatives to craft a final bill for President Obama will be difficult because of some major differences, notably the House bill's provision for a government-run health insurance option, absent from the Senate measure.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

His parents were very much absent from his growing-up life.

在他的成长过程中，他的父母并没有参与太多。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Who's absent?

这里缺了谁呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选