absent

其他意思

1. adj. 缺席的, 不在的, 缺乏的, 漫不經心的

   If someone or something is absent from a place or situation where they should be or where they usually are, they are not there.

   • He has been absent from his desk for two weeks

2. v. 使缺席

   If someone absents themselves from a place where they should be or where they usually are, they do not go there or they do not stay there.[FORMAL]

   • She was old enough to absent herself from the lunch table if she chose

3. prep.

   If you say that absent one thing, another thing will happen, you mean that if the first thing does not happen, the second thing will happen.[AM, FORMAL]

   • Absent a solution, people like Sue Godfrey will just keep on fighting.