The case was dismissed in the absence of any definite proof.

此案因缺乏确凿证据而不予受理。

The competition has been thrown wide open by the absence of the world champion.

世界冠军的缺席使这场比赛变得胜负难定。

It's not quite peace in the strictest sense of the word, rather the absence of war.

这个词就其最确切的意义而言不完全是和平，更像是没有战争。

Original mail returned in the absence of the addressee.

收信人不在，原件退回。

In the absence of wolves, coyote populations also grew quickly.

在没有狼的情况下，土狼的数量也迅速增加。

In the absence of actual data no reliance can be placed on such figures.

在缺乏实际资料的情况下，这样的数据不可靠。

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, the profession of faith should be enough.

在缺少反面证据的情况下，对于信仰的声明应该足够了。

In the absence of parents' company in their childhood, these children will lack of confidence.

童年时缺乏父母陪伴，孩子们会缺乏自信。

Why? Because there's more to life than just pleasure and the absence of pain, so it seems to me.

为什么？因为在我看来，生活不仅仅是快乐和没有痛苦。

Bats have an engineering problem: how to find their way and find their prey in the absence of light.

蝙蝠们遇到了一个技术上的难题：如何在没有光线的条件下认路和捕食。

However, these disorders often remain throughout life due to neglect or absence of specific kind of treatment.

然而，由于忽视或缺乏特定的治疗，这些疾病往往会伴随一生。

In the absence of clear goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily doings until we become slaves of them.

在缺乏明确目标的情况下，我们会奇怪地忠于执行日常的事情，直到我们成为它们的奴隶。

In the absence of gene flow between the subpopulations, genetic differences between the groups begin to accumulate.

在亚群体间缺乏基因流动时，群体间的遗传差异开始累积。

Its clean air, attractive parks, and the absence of any industry, make this an ideal spot for people looking for a quiet life.

它有干净的空气、吸引人的公园以及没有任何工业，使它成为人们寻找安静生活的理想场所。

The absence of oxygen on other planets means that those planets lack an ozone shield to protect life forms against UV radiation.

其他行星上没有氧气，这意味着这些行星缺乏保护生命体免受紫外线辐射的臭氧层。

Some geologists wondered whether the absence of friction-generated heat could be explained by the kinds of rock composing the fault.

一些地质学家想知道，是否可以用构成断层的岩石来解释没有摩擦产生的热量。

There is "the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse, and the casualness and absence of deference" characteristic of popular culture.

流行文化的特点是“着装和话语的民主化统一，以及随意性和缺乏依从性”。

In the absence of work, a society designed with other ends in mind could yield strikingly different circumstances for the future of labor and leisure.

在没有工作的情况下，一个怀揣着其他宗旨的社会可能会在未来的劳动与休闲方面产生截然不同的情形。

Employers did create maternity-leave programs in the 1970's and 1980's, but not as a purely voluntary response in the absence of any government mandate.

在20世纪70年代和80年代，雇主们的确设立了产假项目，但在没有任何政府强制的情况下，这并不是完全出于自愿的反应。

In the absence of the cultural traditions that fill our lives with numbers from infancy, we would all struggle with even basic quantitative distinctions.

如果没有文化传统，我们的生活不会从婴儿期就充满了数字，我们所有人都会为了最基本的数量区分而挣扎。

In areas with heavy automobile traffic, however, the seed germinates in the absence of fire, with automobile exhaust supplying the required nitrogen dioxide.

然而，在汽车交通繁忙的地区，种子在没有火灾的情况下借助汽车尾气提供所需的二氧化氮发芽。

This sleek design allows single sounds to convey useful information, and in fact, even the absence of a sound has been enlisted to express something specific.

这种圆滑的设计使单一的声音也能传达有用的信息，事实上，即使没有声音也会被用来表达一些特定的含义。

One interpretation regarding the absence of fossils during this important 100-million-year period is that early animals were soft-bodied and simply did not fossilize.

关于在这一亿年的重要时期中没有化石，有一种解释是，早期的动物是软体动物，根本不会变成化石。

One interpretation regarding the absence of fossils during this important 100-million-year period is that early animals were soft bodied and simply did not fossilize.

在这重要的一亿年的周期内缺乏化石（记录），关于这一点，有一种解释是早期的动物是软体动物，所以它们无法形成化石。

Food and aid poured in from most developed countries into the continent, but thanks to the absence of efficient distribution system, the hungry remained empty-stomach.

粮食和援助从大多数发达国家涌入这片大陆，但由于缺乏高效的分配系统，饥饿的人们仍然饥肠辘辘。

Researchers at Duke University scrutinized more than 160 published studies and found an absence of strong evidence that any of these approaches can make a big difference.

杜克大学的研究人员详细核查了160多项已发表的研究，发现并没有强有力的证据表明这些方法中的任意之一能产生重大作用。

In 1995 the Galileo spacecraft captured data about Jupiter's atmosphere—namely, the absence of most of the predicted atmospheric water—that challenged prevailing theories about Jupiter's structure.

1995年，伽利略号宇宙飞船捕获了关于木星大气的数据——也就是说，大部分预测的大气中没有水——这挑战了关于木星结构的主流理论。

The story is told with a complete absence of contrivance.

这故事讲得毫不矫揉造作。

There is more to good health than the mere absence of disease.

健康不仅仅指不生病，还包括更多。

The presence or absence of clouds can have an important impact on temperature.

云的有无对气温会产生重要影响。