weary, worn-out for lack of a little tenderness, given and taken.

厌倦了， 衰败了， 因为得不到一点温情， 也没有一点温情可以给与。

Lawrence, David Herbert / Lady Chatterley's Lover劳伦斯, 大卫 赫伯特 / 查太莱夫人的情人

查太莱夫人的情人

劳伦斯, 大卫 赫伯特

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lawrence, David Herbert

© Wordsworth Editions Limited 2005

Leaders around the world seem to be convinced that inequality and lack of broad participation in economic growth, if allowed to persist, will lead to social discord and even violence.

世界各国的领导似乎都相信，如果任由不平等现象和缺乏对经济发展的广泛参与泛滥下去，将会破坏社会关系的和谐，甚至导致暴力的发生。

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© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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But poor countries typically lack the funds needed to pay such a team’s fees.

但穷国通常负担不起如此巨额的费用。

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Everything was working in my favour, and I swore that it should not be through lack of energy or perseverance that I should miss the chance which fortune had thrown in my way.

对我说来事事都很顺利，我敢发誓，我绝不会因为缺乏精神和毅力而错过命运之神给我送到眼前来的机会。

Conan Doyle, Arthur / The Hound of the Baskervilles柯南 道尔 / 巴斯克维尔猎犬

巴斯克维尔猎犬

柯南 道尔

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Conan Doyle, Arthur

© 1901, 1902 by A. Conan Doyle

At the same time, lack of confidence on the part of a country, a culture, or a civilization can be just as dangerous.

与此同时，一个国家、文化或者文明缺乏自信也会同样危险。

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© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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The problem is that currently there is a lack of convergence and coherence between national supervisors. And that is because perceived national interests still have the upper hand over the wider interests of an integrated European marketplace.

问题是目前在各国监管机构之间缺乏统一协调的机制，而这是因为眼前的国家利益仍高于统一的欧洲市场的利益。

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The lack of a direct relationship with Europe’s people deprives these bodies of the pressure required to bring about rapid action and responsive policies.

与欧洲民众缺乏直接的联系导致这些机构失去了必要的压力，而只有压力才能带来敏锐的政策和快速的行动。

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© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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Indeed, nearly a half-billion Chinese lack access to clean drinking water, and the number of terminally polluted rivers and lakes grows daily.

事实上，几乎有近五亿中国人无法获得干净的饮用水，而遭到严重污染的江河湖泊的数量每天都在增加。

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© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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But this very political strength is precisely what both the Israeli and Palestinian governments lack.

但是，以色列和巴勒斯坦政府缺乏的就是这一政治力量。

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© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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Their lack of empathy is deplorable, but there are conceptual problems as well.

他们不会换位思考令人可悲可叹，但与理念有关的问题也急待解决。

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© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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Unfortunately, the IMF is paralyzed by the need to confront some internal governance problems, the biggest of which is the lack of a sensible way to recalculate the voting shares of countries as their relative influence in the global economy evolves.

不幸的是，解决某些内部管理问题的需要令国际货币基金组织处于瘫痪。其中最大的问题就是各国在全球经济中相对影响力演变过程中缺乏切合实际的方法来重新计算它们的投票份额。

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But, regardless of the election’s outcome, the recent crisis exposes a lack of commitment by the EU to security and democracy in Georgia.

但是，不管这次选举的结果如何，最近的危机显示了欧盟在保护格鲁吉亚的安全和民主上还做得很不够。

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© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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The party will be able to form a government by itself, but will lack the two-thirds majority needed to bring about some of the big changes that it seeks.

该党将可以自行组织政府，但是却缺少所需要的三分之二的多数来实行它所寻求的巨大变革。

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For still others, it was the lack of sustained effort to bring about peace between Israelis and Palestinians or US opposition to the International Criminal Court and to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

而对于另外一些人而言，这是由于缺少建立巴以和平的持续努力或美国反对国际刑事法庭以及有关气候变化的京都议定书。

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© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011

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Research undertaken by the Copenhagen Consensus shows that an excellent approach would be to devote more money to providing the micronutrients that are lacking in poor communities’ diets.

《哥本哈根共识》进行的研究显示最佳方法是投入更多资金，提供贫困人口日常饮食中所缺乏的微量营养素。

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