caution: if there is a sense of a lack of a U.S.commitment, NATO and Pakistan will hedge and pull back.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

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

Well, that's at least an improvement, because then we say, look, while you're asleep, even though there's no P-functioning going on, the lack of P-functioning is temporary, so you're still alive.

这至少算是个改进，因为我们能说，看，你睡着了，即便没有任何人格功能性发生，人格功能性的缺少是暂时的，就说明你还活着。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"There is a lack of water in all the region, especially in Jordan and for the Palestinians."

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

Nature is a meaningless concept just like the lack of meaning within nature, where there's no culture until culture comes along and says, "Oh, not so much there is nature, but I'm terribly unhappy because before I came along, there was nature." Right?

自然是个没有意义的概念,正如自然之中意义的缺乏，自然中原本没有文明，直到文明走过来说，“哦，自然的存在并不算什么，我很不高兴的是因为,我来之前，这里就有自然了“，是吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Dr.Huerta says many Latin and South American communities do not have mammography machines, and there is a general lack of knowledge about the disease.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

Then there are some who say the real problem here is the lack of consent, whether the lack of consent to a lottery, to a fair procedure or, Kathleen's idea, lack of consent at the moment of death.

还有人认为,真正的问题在于，没有征得同意，不管是没有征得同意抽签，用公平程序进行,或者是凯思琳所说，没有征得派克的同意杀他。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

It shows there is a lack of a political will to really fight corruption."

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

It is basically a lack of law and order there.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

There is a lack of regular running water in several areas, while doctors at the local hospital admit they do not always provide blood to patients that is tested for the HIV virus that causes AIDS.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14