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.
如果一個作家有許多優秀的觀點，那他一定想要有發言權，這是一個大衆廣泛認可的事實。
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，擁有快樂的秘訣是要擁有善良的心霛——而您卻沒有。
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.
凡是有卓越戰略的股票交易所，必定需要找個伴侶，這已成了一條多年來西方金融市場公認的真理。

"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.
所以它在這些時候都被呈現了出來，而且是同等地呈現了出來-,讓我們廻頭看看,這種空無一物的感覺。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年後的美國小說課程節選
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.
而藝術創作的意義是，我們都希望得到,啓示，希望看到意想不到,的事情發生。
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節選

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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