Lack

(noun.) the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; 'there is a serious lack of insight into the problem'; 'water is the critical deficiency in desert regions'; 'for want of a nail the shoe was lost'.

录入:普勒斯顿

• No, the lack is something to be made up for by the introduction of still another study, or, if necessary, another kind of school. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I decided that if I found a corresponding crowd there, the only thing to do to correct my lack of judgment in not getting more papers was to raise the price from five cents to ten. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In 1855 the work was discontinued at the height of 152 feet, from lack of funds. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The very barristers' wigs are ill-powdered, and their curls lack crispness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• She was as unconcerned at that contingency as a goddess at a lack of linen. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• There was no lack of cheerfulness on board the Quaker City. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Truth has no lack; it is untouched by the perturbations of the world of sense. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Their bodies were smaller and lighter in color, and their fingers and toes bore the rudiments of nails, which were entirely lacking among the males. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• But just this perception is lacking in many propagandists. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The birds use their vocal cords to beautiful advantage in singing, far surpassing us in many ways, but the power of speech is lacking. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Because, however much he might mentally WILL to be immune and self-complete, the desire for this state was lacking, and he could not create it. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He found them all greatly lacking in economy of operation; indeed, the highest results obtainable from the best were 18 per cent. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• They are compelled, so to speak, to have physical gifts because they are lacking in social gifts. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Such a situation can be saved only by an immediate outrush of feeling; and on Selden's side the determining impulse was still lacking. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• But Scipio Africanus lacked that harder alloy which makes men great democratic leaders. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I did my best to feed her well and keep her warm, and she only asked food and sunshine, or when that lacked, fire. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The church, in comparison with its later state, was more in the hands of local laymen and the local ruler; it lacked its later universality. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• If, in the moments I and my pupil spent with him, I lacked spirits and sank into inevitable dejection, he became even gay. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Lily uttered a faint laugh--for once Mrs. Fisher lacked originality. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• They lacked that broader faith and understanding which induces men simply to study the stars. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I lacked not words now; fast I narrated; fluent I told my tale; it streamed on my tongue. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Sisal also lacks the flexibility of Manila, being much more stiff and harsh. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Eginhard lacks vividness; he tells many particulars, but not the particulars that make a man live again in the record. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The future just as future lacks urgency and body. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• However brave the followers are, unless the leader is equally so, their valor is not of much use, as it lacks discipline and trust in the general. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• It is the one quality which Gregory lacks. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• He lacks at birth and for a long time thereafter power to make his way physically, to make his own living. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The small weight makes up in distance what it lacks in magnitude. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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