She took advantage of the children's absence to tidy their rooms.
她趁孩子们不在时收拾了他们的房间。
Why? Because there's more to life than just pleasure and the absence of pain, so it seems to me.
为什么？因为在我看来，生活不仅仅是快乐和没有痛苦。
Bats have an engineering problem: how to find their way and find their prey in the absence of light.
蝙蝠们遇到了一个技术上的难题：如何在没有光线的条件下认路和捕食。
We are probably all familiar with background music in films, which has become so ubiquitous as to be noticeable in its absence.
我们可能都熟悉电影中的背景音乐，它已经变得如此普遍，以至于如果没有背景音乐便会显得很突兀。
Barrett wanted to find out if the absence of physical currency does indeed cause a person to spend more, so she decided to conduct an experiment a few months ago.
巴雷特想知道没有了实体货币是否真的会让一个人花更多的钱，所以她几个月前决定做一个实验。
Researchers at Duke University scrutinized more than 160 published studies and found an absence of strong evidence that any of these approaches can make a big difference.
杜克大学的研究人员详细核查了160多项已发表的研究，发现并没有强有力的证据表明这些方法中的任意之一能产生重大作用。
Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don't measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rare.
那些将问题看作人为状况、并且不认为幸福就是没有任何难题的人，是我们所知道的最聪明的人；也是最少见的人。
The ostensible reason for his absence was illness.
他假托生病缺勤。
Everyone understood how hard it was to get back into the swing of things after such a long absence.
每个人都明白离开这么长一段时间后要重新全力投入有多难。
Their streamlined bodies, the absence of hind legs, and the presence of a fluke and blowhole cannot disguise their affinities with land dwelling mammals.
它们的身体呈流线型，后肢完全消失，身体上长出了尾片和喷水孔，所有这些特征都无法掩饰它们与陆生哺乳动物之间的亲缘关系。
"In the absence of this species, ecosystems stop working well and may even collapse," Di Martino says.
“如果没有这一物种，生态系统就无法正常运转，甚至可能崩溃。”迪·马蒂诺说。
I was back teaching after an absence of 15 years, dealing with the various kinds of "forbidden fruit" that come out of book bags.
在离开15年后，我回到了教学岗位，处理着从学生书包里冒出来的各种各样的“禁果”。
In his absence, she will act for him in negotiations.
他不在时，她将代替他进行谈判。
Harvey: I think your absence might be considered a slight.
哈维：我想你的缺席可能会被视为是对客人的怠慢。
The absence of content does not mean the absence of interest.
内容的缺失并不意味着关注的缺失。
Many children outgrow absence seizures in their teen years.
许多儿童患者在十几岁时可自愈。
She embraced her son tenderly when he came home after ten years' absence.
她儿子离家十年后回家时她亲切地拥抱儿子。
What a void in the absence of the being who, by herself alone fills the world!
不见那唯一充塞天地的人，这是何等的空虚！
The absence of real policy debate provokes an understandable response: growing apathy.
实质性政策辩论的缺失挑起了一种不难理解的反应：选民中日益增长的冷漠情绪。
I was wondering if you could give me leave of absence to attend a computer course.
我想请假上计算机课，不知道您准不准假？
Founder members Norwich City are back in the Premier League after a six-year absence.
作为赛事最初的参赛队之一，六年之后，诺维奇城终于返回了英超联赛。
Weird Fact: the telegraph plant is capable of rapid movement - even in the absence of wind.
怪异的事实：舞草能在没有风的情况下快速摇动。
In early August she announced that she was taking a leave of absence for several weeks.
8月初，她宣布要请假休息几个星期。
But they enjoy one blessing: an almost complete absence of pollution from car exhausts.
但是他们享有一种幸福：几乎完全不受汽车尾气的污染。
Nature abhors a vacuum, journalism even more so, and so it fills absence with windiness.
大自然憎恶真空，新闻报道更不能容忍缺位。
In the absence of hard evidence of what came before, there is plenty of scope for disagreement.
而对于更早期的问题，由于缺乏确切证据，可谓是众说纷纭。
Still, there are those who worry that Mr. Jobs's absence will have an impact even beyond Apple.
尽管如此，仍有人担心乔博斯的离开将远不止影响苹果一家企业。
Now, after a painful six-year absence, they are back at the top - and hoping to stay for longer.
如今，在阔别六年后，诺维奇城又回到了英超，希望这次能停留久一些。
Now, after a painful six-year absence, they are back at the top - and hoping to stay for longer.
如今，在阔别六年后，诺维奇城又回到了英超，希望这次能停留久一些。
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