lack
lack 英 [læk] 美 [læk]
v. 缺乏；不足 n. 缺乏；不足
进行时:lacking 过去式:lacked 过去分词:lacked 第三人称单数:lacks 名词复数:lacks
- If you lack something, you need or want something that's missing. When there's a lack of food, people starve.
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- v. 缺乏；不足
- n. 缺乏；不足
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1. The trip was cancelled through lack of interest.
因为缺乏兴趣这次旅行被取消了。
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2. There was no lack of volunteers.
志愿者不乏其人。
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3. Some houses still lack basic amenities such as bathrooms.
有些住宅仍没有像卫生间这样的基本设施。
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4. He lacks confidence.
他缺乏信心。
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5. She has the determination that her brother lacks.
她有决心，而她弟弟却没有。
- lack (n.) c. 1300, "absence, want; shortage, deficiency," not found in Old English, of uncertain origin. Perhaps it is from an unrecorded Old English *lac, or else borrowed from Middle Dutch lak "deficiency, fault;" in either case probably from Proto-Germanic *lek- (source also of Old Frisian lek "disadvantage, damage," Old Norse lakr "lacking" (in quality), "deficient" (in weight)), from PIE *leg- (2) "to dribble, trickle" (see leak (v.)). Middle English also had lackless "without blame or fault."
- lack (v.) "be wanting or deficient" (intransitive), late 12c., perhaps from Middle Dutch laken "to be wanting," from lak (n.) "deficiency, fault," or an unrecorded native cognate word (see lack (n.)). Transitive sense "be in want of" is from early 13c. Related: Lacked; lacking.
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