There is "the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse, and the casualness and absence of deference" characteristic of popular culture.(流行文化的特点是“着装和话语的民主化统一，以及随意性和缺乏依从性”。)
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。)
In the absence of evidence to the contrary, the profession of faith should be enough.(在缺少反面证据的情况下，对于信仰的声明应该足够了。)
The competition has been thrown wide open by the absence of the world champion.(世界冠军的缺席使这场比赛变得胜负难定。)
If there is an emergency and the manager is of absence, what should we do?(如果有紧急情况，经理又不在，我们怎么办呢？)
Red leaves only satisfy in the absence of greens.(只有没有绿叶时，红叶才令人满意。)
The team was crippled by his absence.(他的缺席使这支球队的实力削弱。)
I wonder if his absence has anything to do with one of these lessons.(我不知道他的缺席是否与这些课程中的某一课有关。)
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。)
