in want of

常见例句

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer in possession of a good idea must be in want of a voice.
如果一个作家有许多优秀的观点，那他一定想要有发言权，这是一个大众广泛认可的事实。
Conscience gives me a joyous mind, and learns, sire, that the infallible recipe for happiness—a good conscience—you are in want of.
陛下您要懂得，拥有快乐的秘诀是要拥有善良的心灵——而您却没有。
A TRUTH universally acknowledged for some years in Western financial markets has been that a single stock exchange in possession of a good strategy must be in want of a partner.
凡是有卓越战略的股票交易所，必定需要找个伴侣，这已成了一条多年来西方金融市场公认的真理。

"I think the story in some ways tells us what we want to think of ourselves as an American.
So, that's present in all of these moments, but--equally present-- I want to get back to this sense of blankness.
所以它在这些时候都被呈现了出来，而且是同等地呈现了出来-,让我们回头看看,这种空无一物的感觉。
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The point is that we both want to be in a place of revelation, where something that neither of us expected to happen will happen.
而艺术创作的意义是，我们都希望得到,启示，希望看到意想不到,的事情发生。
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In The Dark Knight Rises, he spends a considerable part of his life in, for want of a better name, Baneistan.
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But here's the point that I made to John Boehner and Mitch McConnell: Bipartisanship can't be that I agree to all the things that they believe in or want, and they agree to none of the things I believe in and want, and that's the price of bipartisanship, right?
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What they are doing is inducing you to vote against your economic interests and in favor of those who want to further concentrate wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people.
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