Old established friends are notably absent, so it's a good opportunity to make new contacts.
老朋友们显然都已不在身边，所以这是结交新朋友的一个好机会。
The chief source of all this passion is that thought for what is absent and future, which, with man, exercises such a powerful influence upon all he does.
这种激情的主要来源是对所缺少的和未来的思考，这种思考和人一起，对他所做的一切产生了如此强有力的影响。
Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absent minded actions for a fortnight.
史密斯教授最近说服了35人，其中23人是女性，在两周内让他们把自己所有心不在焉的行为记在日记里。
Elizabeth absent-mindedly picked a thread from his lapel.
伊丽莎白心不在焉地从他的翻领上拈起了一根线。
Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for a fortnight.
史密斯教授最近说服了35人，其中23人是女性，让他们把自己在两周内所有心不在焉的行为记在日记里。
As we're too absent-minded by what's happening in the virtual some of us have lost conversational skills and sometimes can't even tell whether a person is happy or not.
由于我们对虚拟世界中发生的事情太过心不在焉，我们中的一些人已经失去了交谈技巧，有时甚至无法分辨一个人是否快乐。
Another common episode of absent-mindedness was walking into a room and wondering why you're there.
另一种常见的心不在焉现象是：走进一个房间，不知道自己为什么在那里。
A startling finding of the research is that the absent-minded activity is a hazard of doing things in which we are skilled.
这项研究的一个惊人发现是，我们做擅长的事情时心不在焉，会带来危险。
Most episodes of absent-mindedness—forgetting where you left something or wondering why you just entered a room are caused by a simple lack of attention.
大多数健忘的发作——忘记你把东西放在哪里了，或者忘记你进入一个房间是想干嘛——都是由简单的缺乏注意力引起的。
A startling finding of the research is that the absent minded activity is a hazard of doing things in which we are skilled.
这项研究的一个惊人发现是，在做我们擅长的事情时心不在焉是危险的。
Another common episode of absent mindedness was walking into a room and wondering why you're there.
另一种常见的心不在焉现象是：走进一个房间，不知道自己为什么在那里。
A careful reading of the text reveals that most of the firstborn children in the sample were from single-parent homes in which the father was absent.
仔细阅读文本就会发现，样本中大多数头生子女都来自没有父亲的单亲家庭。
Two students are absent because they have a cold.
两个学生因为感冒缺席了。
A handful of Africa's unique island mammal families that were present 26 million years ago are absent from sites younger than Mush.
在比 Mush更年轻的遗址中，不少2600万年前只属于非洲大陆的哺乳科动物消失了。
He meets a friend he has been very fond of, who speaks to him absent-mindedly.
他碰到了一个一直十分喜爱的朋友，这朋友跟他说话时心不在焉。
Catharines, Canada, reported a link between absent fathers and early puberty in boys and girls in in 2005 in the Journal of Adolescence.
他2005年曾在JournalofAdolescence 上报道了父亲缺失与男孩和女孩早熟之间的一个关联关系。
These opportunities to experiment and interact with outside organisations - while not absent - are reduced on a one-year course by sheer timetable pressure.
而一年制课程由于极大的时间压力，减少了这些与外界组织实践和互动的机会——尽管不是完全没有。
It was a sweet substitute for the yet absent murmur of the summer foliage, which drowned that music about the Grange when the trees were in leaf.
这美妙的声音代替了现在还没有到来的夏日树叶飒飒声，等到树上生了果子，这声音就湮没了田庄附近的那种音乐。
A man in his fifties should not come to a strange land, not knowing the language, absent connections, and expect to thrive.
一个五十多岁的人踏上陌生的土地，语言不通又没有门路，是不可能指望过得越来越兴旺的。
Conversely, I do not recall noting such a culture where these frameworks were entirely absent, in recent times.
与之相反的是，在最近的时期内，我会检索所有代码，而这些地方框架是完全不存在的。
Absent a deal to cut the deficit and slow the growth rate of the national debt, many Republicans say they will not vote to increase the debt ceiling.
共和党人说，如果就削减赤字、降低国债增长幅度达不成一项协议，他们将不会投票支持提高国债上限。
Wilson, the attending veterinarian, a genial and absent-minded man, was about to retire any day now.
威尔逊医生是这里的主治兽医，他是一个亲切且健忘的人，每天都准备着退休。
This ensures them a modicum of privacy absent from many other camps, which lack sanitation or rely on outdoor toilets.
这相比于那些缺少卫生设施或是只有依赖露天厕所的帐篷，已经可以确保一些他们的隐私了。
It then checks for an associated project ID number and prints a warning if one is absent.
它然后检查一个相关的项目id号，如果不存在，就输出一个警告。
Until the volume of available credit improves, the conditions for a sustained revival are absent, and recovery will remain fragile.
在可用信贷规模改善之前，持续复苏的条件并不存在，复苏仍将是脆弱的。
The mud volcano was absent in a previous overpass on February 11, 2010, shown in the lower image.
该泥火山在2010年2月11日同一地点所摄图像中并未出现，如图2所示。
Absent a specified option, the default is the legacy DOM technique, but future code should specify explicitly in case the default changes.
由于缺少指定的选项，缺省选项是使用旧的DOM技术，但今后的代码应该明确指定，以防缺省选项有所更改。
Simple game theory suggests that a sub-optimal result is almost inevitable absent a policeman to bully participants into good behaviour.
简单的游戏原理似乎暗示，潜在的最佳结论必然是，现在缺少一个警察来强迫参与者做规矩之事。
Finally, I discussed bubbles, a topic that is also absent from most financial textbooks.
最后，我来讲讲泡沫问题，这也在绝大多数的金融课本中是遗漏的。
Finally, I discussed bubbles, a topic that is also absent from most financial textbooks.
最后，我来讲讲泡沫问题，这也在绝大多数的金融课本中是遗漏的。
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