absence中等

Restrictions that keep highly polluting cars out of certain areas — city centres, “school streets”, even individual roads — are a response to the absence of a larger effort to properly enforce existing regulations and require auto companies to bring their vehicles into compliance.

禁止高污染汽车进入某些区域——市中心、“学校街道”，甚至个别道路——的限制措施，是对缺乏更大力度的努力的一种回应，这种努力指的是切实执行现有法规并要求汽车公司使其车辆达标。

absence

缺乏；不存在

As the Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu is reported to have said: “Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.”

正如据说中国哲学家庄子所言：“至乐无乐。”

Driving her point home, she continued: “It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous goals for capitalism and freedom.”

为了阐明她的观点，她接着说：“越来越明显的是，在政府、媒体或企业内部缺乏目标、缺乏道德语言，可能成为资本主义和自由所面临的最危险的目标之一。”

This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International, she thought, making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking.

她认为，同样是道德目标的缺失，正在伤害新闻国际这样的公司，使其更有可能迷失方向，就像它在大范围非法窃听电话事件中那样。