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lack AHD[lăk] D.J.[læk]K.K.[læk]n.（名词）- A deficiency or an absence:缺乏或没有：a lack of money.缺乏金钱
- Something needed or wanted.欠缺的事物：缺乏或寻求的某物
v.（动词）lacked, lack.ing, lacks v.tr.（及物动词）- To be entirely without or have very little of.缺乏：根本就没有或仅有一点
- To be in need of.需要
v.intr.（不及物动词）- To be wanting or deficient:缺乏：处于匮乏或不足状态：You will not be lacking in support from me.你将得到我的帮助
- To be in need of something:需要：需要某物：I lacked for nothing.我不需要任何东西
- Middle English 中古英语
- perhaps from Middle Dutch lac [deficiency, fault] 可能源自 中古荷兰语 lac [缺乏，缺陷]
lack, want, need- These verbs mean to be without something,especially something that is necessary or desirable.这些动词的意思是没有某物，尤指该物是必须的或是合乎需要的。
- Lack emphasizes the absence of the thing in question or the inadequacy of its supply: Lack 强调的必须品的缺乏或其供应的不足： She lacks the money to buy new shoes.她没钱买新鞋。The plant died because it lacked moisture.这株植物因为缺乏水分而死。What he lacks in courage he compensates for in bravado.他用虚张声势来弥补自己勇气的匮乏。
- Want andneed stress the urgent necessity for filling a void or remedying an inadequacy: Want 和need 强调的是填补空白或弥补不足的迫切性： "Her pens were uniformly bad and wanted fixing" (Bret Harte). “她的钢笔都坏了，需要修理” （布莱特·哈特）。 I need help.我需要帮助。The garden needs care.花园需要人照管。"Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist" (Anwar el-Sadat).“只有当一个人惭惭地对外物无所求时，他才可能成为他自己真正的主人并因此而真实地存在” （安瓦尔·埃尔·萨达特）
- As an intransitive verbin the sense "to be wanting or deficient,”lack is used chiefly in the present participle with in: 作为一个不及物动词，用于“缺乏或缺少”之意的lack 主要和 in一起用于现在分词中： You will not be lacking in support from me. 你会得到我的帮助。
- In the sense "to be in need of something"it is often used withfor: 当意思是“需要某物”时，它经常与for连用： "In the terrible, beautiful age of my prime,/I lacked for sweet linen but never for time" (E.B. White).“在我可怕而又美丽的壮年岁月中，／我需要的是亚麻布而从来不是时间” （E．B．怀特）
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