名词

1. She never speaks ill of anyone in his or her absence.
她从不乘人不在时说别人的坏话。

2. Darkness is the absence of light.
黑暗就是缺乏光亮。

3. The absence of color in that drawing makes it dull.
那幅画因没有着色而显得晦暗。

1. 缺乏：我们的'自身',在未同他人和他物发生关系以前,在本质上是一种'缺乏'(absence). 作为缺乏,自身永远需求建构和重建它所期望的同他人和同他物的关系. 所以,自身虽然深处于人的生命活动过程内部,但它那只属于其自身的生命力本身,

1. 不在；缺席
Someone's absence from a place is the fact that they are not there.

e.g. ...a bundle of letters which had arrived for me in my absence...
我不在期间寄给我的一大堆信件
e.g. Eleanor would later blame her mother-in-law for her husband's frequent absences.
埃莉诺过后会因丈夫经常不在家而责怪婆婆。

2. 缺乏；不存在
The absence of something from a place is the fact that it is not there or does not exist.

e.g. The presence or absence of clouds can have an important impact on heat transfer...
有无云层对热量的传递会产生重要的影响。
e.g. In the absence of a will the courts decide who the guardian is.
在没有遗嘱的情况下，由法庭指定监护人。

3. see also: leave of absence
conspicuous by one's absence - see conspicuous

noun

1. failure to be present

2. the state of being absent

e.g. he was surprised by the absence of any explanation

3. the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.
common in petit mal epilepsy

Synonym: absence seizure

4. the time interval during which something or somebody is away

e.g. he visited during my absence