lack

英[læk]美[læk]

n.缺乏；

v.缺少；

复数：lacks;

第三人称单数：lacks;

过去式：lacked;

过去分词：lacked;

现在分词：lacking;

例句

a lack of self-confidence缺乏自信

In a severe winter, wild animals can die from lack of food.在寒冷的冬天, 野兽可能因为缺乏食物而饿死。

Several research institutions were closed down for lack of fund.由于缺乏资金, 好几家研究机构被迫关门了。

They wasted away for lack of food.由于食物的缺乏, 他们越来越虚弱了。

He’s been taken to task for his habitual lack of punctuality.他因为经常不准时而受到批评。

The plan was criticized for its lack of rationale.该计划因缺乏根据而遭到批评。

He said that they had regrettably been obliged to give up the scheme for lack of support.他说因为缺乏支持，他们遗憾地被迫放弃了这项计划。

He’s had no success in finding a job, though not for lack of trying.他到现在还没找到工作，不过他很努力地找了。

The shop has shut down because of lack of trade.那商店因生意萧条而停业。

Vitamin pills make up what you lack in your diet.维生素丸可补充你食物中所缺乏的营养。

英语六级真题

The lack of a research culture.

We aren't suffering from a shortage of needed skills; we're suffering from a lack of policy resolve.

Unlike developed cities, however, these areas lack advanced water-treatment facilities, and rivers effectively become sewers ( ' , 下水道).

More than 80% of those cases can be attributed to contact with contaminated water and a lack of proper sanitation.

Lack of financial resources.

Many top firms will not even look at applications from those who lack a 2.1

And because a failure to accept these increased demands indicates a lack of commitment to one's work, the employee complies.

American scientists complain about lack of sufficient money and equipment for their expansion in Antarctica.

According to the survey, that lack of enthusiasm could stem from concerns about privacy and security.

Unfortunately, there tends to be a lack of information and support to help students think bigger and broader.

Our support structure was more like: ‘You are going to get through Yale; you are going to do well,' he said, hinting at mentors ( ' , 导师 ), staff, and professors who all provided significant support for students who lacked confidence about belonging at such a top institution.

It was this lack of information that prompted the launch of I'm First in 2013, originally as an arm of its umbrella organization, the Center For Student Opportunity.

In 2011 they released a landmark study titled Academically Adrift, which documented the lack of intellectual growth experienced by many people enrolled in college.

Arum and Roksa placed the blame for students' lack of learning on a watered-down college curriculum and lowered undergraduate work standards.

Take another common obstacle: lack of money

They lack the skills and expertise needed for their jobs

Lack of rainfall resulting from global warming.

But a bigger problem may be that poor high schools often send their students to colleges for which they are "undermatched": they could get into more elite, richer schools, but instead go to community colleges and low-rated state schools that lack the resources to help them.

This scenario is common in newsrooms that lack a systematic way to filter story suggestions

The lack of a precedent in American history.

Most pop singers suffer from three things: lack of training, overuse and abuse of the voice, especially when they are young.

People from broken homes often lack stable lives

Many lack professional training.

It lacks the vitamins and minerals essential for health.

Don't risk injury or death beacuse of over-confidence or lack of knowledge.

But many papers lack interest in reporting something positive like peace, love and generosity.

They lack knowledge of the culture of the city.

The man lacks confidence in playing the part.

They lack the expertise to make capital investments.

Fatigue is a typical symptom of lack of exercise.

Case studies of children who were isolated from others reveal that they lack a firm self-concept, and their mental and psychological development is severely hindered by lack of language.

People who lack close friends have greater levels of anxiety and depression than people who are close to others

Most of them lacked interest in the subject.

And lack of recovery一whether by disrupting sleep with thoughts of work or having continuous cognitive arousal by watching our phones一is costing our companies $62 billion a year in lost productivity.

But the lack of work opportunities in Bucks County limits how much she can help.

Despite being the continent's second-largest producer of tomatoes, Nigeria is dependent on $1 billion worth of tomato-paste imports every year, as around 75% of the local harvest goes to waste thanks to a lack of proper storage facilities.

From the lack of secure, affordable housing to growing job insecurity and rising personal debt, the individual is trapped.

In 2011 they released a landmark study titled "Academically Adrift", which documented the lack of intellectual growth experienced by many people enrolled in college.

It was this lack of information that prompted the launch of I'm first in 2013, originally as an arm of its umbrella organization, the Center For Student Opportunity.

Many top firms will not even look at applications from those who lack a 2.1, i.e., an upper-second class degree, from an elite university.

Research has found that there is a direct correlation between lack of recovery and increased incidence of health and safety problems.

The aim was to enable older people to remain in their own homes for as long as possible, but this increased concern about the lack of coordination between free health and paid-for social car.

The issue of climate change also illustrates how the public acceptance and understanding of scienceor the lack of it can influence governmental decision-making with regard to regulation, science policy and research funding.

The very lack of a recovery period is dramatically holding back our collective ability to be resilient and successful.

They can meet their basic needs, but they lack access to cultural goods, entertainment and recreation.

They lack water-storing structures, and their existence on rock faces prevents them from tapping groundwater, so they have instead developed the ability to change their metabolism.

Unlike developed cities, however, these areas lack advanced water-treatment facilities, and rivers effectively become sewers.

What they sometimes lack is feedback from the people who they hope will use their products.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-UNCOUNT

缺乏；不足；没有

If there is a lack of something, there is not enough of it or it does not exist at all.

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V-ERG

缺少；欠缺；没有

If you say that someone or something lacks a particular quality or that a particular quality is lacking in them, you mean that they do not have any or enough of it.

例句

PHRASE

不乏；有的是

If you say there is no lack of something, you are emphasizing that there is a great deal of it.

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英汉词典释义

vt.

缺乏, 缺少, 短缺, 不足

n.

缺乏, 匮乏, 短缺, 不足, 没有,

英英词典释义

Noun

1. the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable;

Verb

1. be without;

行业词典

法律： 缺乏；缺少；