be in want of

基本解釋

For, although they were bountiful in words, they were want of grammar or sentence construction.
因為，雖然他們認(rèn)識的單詞不少，可還需要接受語法和句子結(jié)構(gòu)的指導(dǎo)。
We found that too often American men were dying in those rice paddies from want of support from our so-called allies.
我們發(fā)現(xiàn)很多時候美國士兵因為得不到所謂盟軍的幫助而死于那些稻田里。
Some of the migrating systems were in production and we did not want to flood the I/O subsystem and cause unnecessary performance issues.
某些遷移系統(tǒng)尚在制作中，我們不想讓 I/O 子系統(tǒng)溢出并導(dǎo)致不必要的性能問題。

And, if you felt you were convinced by my reading of that iconography in these passages, then you want to think about why that's convincing.
如果你覺得我讀的,片段中的形象很有說服力，那么你們?nèi)ハ胂霑裁磿欧?作為讀者。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年后的美國小說課程節(jié)選
They did this because they didn't want the upper-class in Rome, who were the elite, they didn't want any one household, or any small group of households, to become too powerful.
因為他們不想羅馬的上層階級，即精英階層，一戶獨大。
耶魯公開課 - 新約課程節(jié)選
Where and when do you want to peak, ? as it were, in terms of your accomplishments?
你想在什么時間到達巔峰，如果它說的是你的成就方面？
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選

And when you said in the House of Representatives that you were going to tackle earmarks -- in fact, you didn't want to have any earmarks in any of your bills -- I jumped up out of my seat and applauded you.
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