in want of

常見例句

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer in possession of a good idea must be in want of a voice.
如果一個作家有許多優(yōu)秀的觀點，那他一定想要有發(fā)言權，這是一個大眾廣泛認可的事實。
Conscience gives me a joyous mind, and learns, sire, that the infallible recipe for happiness—a good conscience—you are in want of.
陛下您要懂得，擁有快樂的秘訣是要擁有善良的心靈——而您卻沒有。
A TRUTH universally acknowledged for some years in Western financial markets has been that a single stock exchange in possession of a good strategy must be in want of a partner.
凡是有卓越戰(zhàn)略的股票交易所，必定需要找個伴侶，這已成了一條多年來西方金融市場公認的真理。

"I think the story in some ways tells us what we want to think of ourselves as an American.
So, that's present in all of these moments, but--equally present-- I want to get back to this sense of blankness.
所以它在這些時候都被呈現(xiàn)了出來，而且是同等地呈現(xiàn)了出來-,讓我們回頭看看,這種空無一物的感覺。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年后的美國小說課程節(jié)選
The point is that we both want to be in a place of revelation, where something that neither of us expected to happen will happen.
而藝術創(chuàng)作的意義是，我們都希望得到,啟示，希望看到意想不到,的事情發(fā)生。
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節(jié)選

In The Dark Knight Rises, he spends a considerable part of his life in, for want of a better name, Baneistan.
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But here's the point that I made to John Boehner and Mitch McConnell: Bipartisanship can't be that I agree to all the things that they believe in or want, and they agree to none of the things I believe in and want, and that's the price of bipartisanship, right?
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What they are doing is inducing you to vote against your economic interests and in favor of those who want to further concentrate wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people.
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