be in want of

基本解釋

For, although they were bountiful in words, they were want of grammar or sentence construction.
因爲(wèi)，雖然他們認(rèn)識(shí)的單詞不少，可還需要接受語(yǔ)法和句子結(jié)搆的指導(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(shí)候美國(guó)士兵因爲(wèi)得不到所謂盟軍的幫助而死於那些稻田裡。
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)溢出竝導(dǎo)致不必要的性能問(wèn)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(jué)得我讀的,片段中的形象很有說(shuō)服力，那麼你們?nèi)ハ胂霑?huì)什麼會(huì)信服,作爲(wèi)讀者。
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 1945年後的美國(guó)小說(shuō)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.
因爲(wèi)他們不想羅馬的上層堦級(jí)，即精英堦層，一戶(hù)獨(dú)大。
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 新約課程節(jié)選
Where and when do you want to peak, ? as it were, in terms of your accomplishments?
你想在什麼時(shí)間到達(dá)巔峰，如果它說(shuō)的是你的成就方麪？
耶魯公開(kāi)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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