Absent

(verb.) go away or leave; 'He absented himself'.

(adj.) lost in thought; showing preoccupation; 'an absent stare'; 'an absentminded professor'; 'the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence' .

(adj.) not being in a specified place .

凯瑟琳整理

• Whether friends were present or absent, she had always a kind smile for him and was attentive to his pleasure and comfort. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• When we are absent from it, we say it still exists, but that we do not feel, we do not see it. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• This man declares that he was not absent from his post for an instant, and he is positive that neither boy nor man could have gone that way unseen. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Her aunt Shaw loved her well in her own quiet way; but she forgets to love the absent. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The indefinable feeling with which Lady Dedlock had impressed me may have had some influence in keeping me from the house even when she was absent. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Susan dropped the spoon, shook her fist at the vanished figure, and then proceeded with her work in a musing, absent way. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The chairs and table, and the bottle so rarely absent from the table, all stand as usual. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• For one little moment Madame Beck absented herself from the room; ten minutes after, an agent of the police stood in the midst of us. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Le sentiment de la fausseté des plaisirs présents, et l'ignorance de la vanité des plaisirs absents causent l'inconstance. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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