He worried about his motorcycle. If the engine failed, he could die of lack of water before anyone could find him.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

There are definitions based on form, circularity, symmetry, economy of form, lack of economy of form, and repetition.

有些定义是基于形式，循环，对称，形式的精简与否，重复。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

the fact that the only problem you're having is the lack of what your expressing and need for.

事实上，你唯一的问题就是你缺少或需要的东西仍未被满足。

I need 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said many of the three million people in the Port-au-Prince area lack food,water, shelter and electricity.

VOA: special.2010.01.16

The dietary laws are presented by the priests not as a sensible way to avoid various diseases that are caused by the lack of refrigeration in the desert.

饮食教规并不是被祭司们,并不是作为一个规避疾病的方法出现的,这些疾病是由于沙漠地区缺水造成的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The medical experts agreed with doctors who say that people who know they lack a vitamin should take vitamin supplements.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The green is more about the ripeness, or lack of ripeness, of the grapes used to make the wine.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

Matt. - So Matt, for you, what bothers you is not the cannibalism but the lack of due process.

马特，-马特，如此说来，真正困扰你的不是食人,而是缺乏正当的程序。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Other signs are red marks on the skin, feelings of extreme tiredness and lack of iron in the body.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

Then when I am talking to young people about Columbine they almost always understand it in the context of school bullying in the context of parental neglect in the context of kids' lack of self-esteem and dignity.

当我和人们讨论科罗拉多可伦拜高中枪杀案时,他们几乎都是这样理解的,无非是校园暴力,缺乏父母管教,以及孩子们缺少自尊自立。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Several years later, researchers discovered the exact cause of pellagra: a lack of the B vitamin known as niacin.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

Don't you feel it in certain details: the eerie lack of people in this place? "No one left and no one came."

你们难道不在细节中感受到：,在这个地方十分怪诞，缺少人，“没有人走，没有人来“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Seiko of Japan was shocked by the blocked doors, and lack of fire safety equipment in the Triangle Factory.

VOA: special.2011.03.18

You reject your mother, who's equally unworthy due to her penis lack, and that shapes your psychosexual development.

同时女性会排斥母亲，原因是母亲没有阴茎，所以也是卑贱的，女性的性心理发展随之成形。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Their members are often elected. But some Americans say the lack of national standards is wrong in a competitive global economy.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

There's always this veneer of innocence, or lack of learning, or lack of sophistication; so, she is presenting herself as a simple person.

她一直给人们一种，不学无术、学识浅薄、,胸无城府的假象;,让人觉得自己是一个简单的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The citizens of Ada knew he had been arrested several times but had always been released for lack of evidence.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

You have some kind of a lord, I mean a king, for lack of a better name, a monarch who fundamentally rules and everybody is subject to him.

你会想到领主,也就是国王,我想不出更好的说法了,统治者制定规则,一切都要臣服于他

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.10.24

Food's more important than family, right. What about how fast the sort of lack of control and now I can kind of binge on it or eat it, I don't even have to wait until the family sits down to eat.

食物比家庭更重要,理解成自身对食物的迅速失控怎么样,暗示自己,现在我可以大快朵颐一番,我甚至都不用等家人全坐下就开始猛吃

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But it lacked financial support. Mary said the lack of support was because of "good men's fear of greatness in women."

VOA: special.2010.06.27

You can use this to express possession or a lack of possession of anything. Tangible or intangible.

你可以用它来表示你有或没有什么东西。有形与无形的事物都可以通用。

I have 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

For example, one of the symptoms is a lack of feeling in one part of the body or another.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

But this is where for lack of a better term non-western countries really formally challenged at the highest levels and the lowest, too.

之所以这么说，是因为找不到更好的表达方式了,这表明非西方国家,从最高层面和最低层面都提出了挑战。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.07.28

There is a blunting in this activation, and this blunting is correlated with this schizophrenic self-reported lack of desire negative symptorms.

这部分的活动被关闭了，而这种关闭活动的结果和精神分裂症患者,缺少欲望症状的报告相符。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Sabine Wilke of the aid group CARE says many also lack the money to hire help to prepare the land.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It was also caused by just a general lack of confidence.

它同时也是由于,缺乏自信导致的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选