1.absencen.缺乏,不存在;缺席
[教材原句]However,learning English as a foreign language is very difficult in the absence of a native language environment.(P6)然而,作为一门外语,学习英语没有母语环境是很难的。
语境巧练
[单句语法填空]
①The children decorated the house beautifully to celebrate their grandmother’s birthday the absence of their mother.
②The company will be in the charge of Bush during his father’s (absent).
③Now all that was needed were the parents,but they were (absence).
[翻译句子]
④主持人没有解释主席为什么缺席了那次重要会议。
