absentatrollcall
1. Carol was absent-minded and a little slow on the uptake.
卡萝尔心不在焉，反应有点迟钝。
2. You will have to put up with Grace's absent-mindedness.
你须得忍受格蕾丝心不在焉的作风。
3. I often do absent-minded things, particularly when I'm worried.
我常做些心不在焉的事，尤其是在我焦虑不安时。
4. Jo was absent from the house all the next day.
乔第二天一整天都不在家。
5. Absent a solution, people like Sue Godfrey will just keep on fighting.
假如得不到解决，像休·戈弗雷这样的人就会一直坚持斗争下去。
6. His wartime experiences were inexplicably absent from the diaries.
他的战时经历莫名其妙地从日记中缺失了。
7. In his later life he became even more absent-minded.
他晚年变得愈加健忘了。
8. They were pointedly absent from the news conference.
他们刻意缺席记者招待会。
9. Her mother is scatty and absent-minded.
她母亲糊里糊涂，丢三落四。
10. He absent-mindedly looked at himself in the mirror.
他心不在焉地看着镜中的自己。
11. Elizabeth absent-mindedly picked a thread from his lapel.
伊丽莎白随手从他的翻领上揪下一根线头。
12. "Nothing," Rosie said in an absent way.
“没什么，”罗茜心不在焉地说。
13. Johnston's name was conspicuously absent from the list.
显然，约翰斯顿的名字不在名单之上。
14. Such scandals have not, alas, been absent.
这样的丑事，唉，也不是没有。
15. At times she could be almost disconcertingly absent-minded.
有时她几乎是健忘得令人尴尬。
absent的用法1：absent的基本意思是“缺席的，不在场的”,在句中可用作定语或表语。用作表语时常与介词from连用，有时还可接动名词，主语一般为人。
absent的用法2：absent作“没有的，缺乏的”解是正式用法，在句中多用作表语，常与介词from连用，主语一般为物。
absent的用法3：absent作“心不在焉的，走神的”解时，指思想不能集中于当前的事情。
absent的用法4：absent不用于比较等级。
absent的用法5：absent前加定冠词the可用作名词，意思是“缺席的人”。
absent的用法6：absent用作及物动词时常接反身代词作宾语，其后常接from引起的介词短语。absent偶尔也可用作不及物动词。