in want of

基本解释

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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