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absence

/ab-suhns/US // ˈæb səns //UK // (ˈæbsəns) //

没有,缺席,缺少,不存在

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : state of being away or not being present: I acted as supervisor in his absence. Your absence was noted on the records.
    • : period of being away: an absence of several weeks.
    • : failure to attend or appear when expected.
    • : lack; deficiency: the absence of proof.
    • : inattentiveness; preoccupation; absent-mindedness: absence of mind.

Phrases

  • absence makes the heart grow fonder
  • conspicuous by its absence

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Examples

  • He’s had a player turn up with a “please excuse his absence from practice” note from a hotel clerk and wondered whether certain men were performing under the influence.

  • Steadman shared emails that hint at concern sweeping through CSL as employee absences shuttered entire centers.

  • At best, the absence of DEI metrics will damper efforts to achieve the ideals of stakeholder capitalism.

  • High rates of absence could slow ballot delivery in key states, especially if there’s a second wave of the coronavirus, as some epidemiologists predict.

  • These organizations were able to test Twitter’s ad serving functions and create more branded content in the absence of live sports, particularly around short-form video.

  • How do you celebrate when happy occasions are colored by loss and absence?

  • In the absence of cultural shifts, then, new reproductive technology might not matter as much for women as it would for men.

  • So filmmakers usually resort to a plot device to compensate for this absence.

  • In the absence of typical classrooms and curriculums, West Africans have opted for alternate methods of learning and education.

  • Courage, one recalls, is not the absence of fear but the ability to act in the face of it.

  • A characteristic which distinguished them and which impressed Mrs. Pontellier most forcibly was their entire absence of prudery.

  • And the absence of paper and so forth, rendering notebooks costly and rare, made a large amount of memorizing necessary.

  • During his absence his own relations and the chief families in his town became the objects of persecution.

  • And the countess-dowager fanned herself complacently, and neither she nor Maude cared for the absence of a groomsman.

  • Mamma has proposed to her—in view of your absence—to come and stay with us, and she does n't seem afraid of the idea.