中國人最易誤解的英語第40期:缺席在哪兒?

Colin isabsent inShanghai.

（誤譯）科林現在不在上海。
（正譯）克林去上海了，不在這裏。

absent

adj. 缺席的；缺少的；心不在焉的；茫然的

vt. 使缺席

例句：

Why did you absent yourself this afternoon?
你今天下午爲什麼缺席?

The school confers a medal on any student who is not absent a single day.
學校對一天也不缺席的學生髮給一枚獎章。

The chief source of all this passion is that thought for what is absent and future, which, with man, exercises such a powerful influence upon all he does.
這種激情主要起源於對缺失的東西以及對未來的想往。人帶着激情，對他所做的事情發揮出如此強有力的影響。

詞組短語：

absent from 缺席
absent from work 曠工；缺勤

Yet the reality of business life is all but absent from American films.
然而，這一巨大的現實卻在美國電影中缺席。

Spontaneous laughter had been so long absent from our relationship that it felt strange.
這自然而然的笑聲在我們之間“缺席”甚久，以至於聽起來有些陌生。

absent minded 健忘的

At this time, I absent minded can imagine some idyllic life ease.
當此之時，我就恍惚能夠想象一些田園生活的悠閒。

You know the stereotype, an absent minded professor, awkward socially.
你所熟悉的典型形象，心不在焉，舉止尷尬的教授。

And isn't everyone absent minded when they have a hundred thoughts going through their head?
注意力缺乏多動症真的只和兒童有關嗎？ 當一百個念頭同時經過大腦的時候，難道不是任何人都會心不在焉嗎？