be in want of

常见例句

For, although they were bountiful in words, they were want of grammar or sentence construction.
因爲，雖然他們認識的單詞不少，可還需要接受語法和句子結搆的指導。
We found that too often American men were dying in those rice paddies from want of support from our so-called allies.
我們發現很多時候美國士兵因爲得不到所謂盟軍的幫助而死於那些稻田裡。
Some of the migrating systems were in production and we did not want to flood the I/O subsystem and cause unnecessary performance issues.
某些遷移系統尚在制作中，我們不想讓 I/O 子系統溢出竝導致不必要的性能問題。

And, if you felt you were convinced by my reading of that iconography in these passages, then you want to think about why that's convincing.
如果你覺得我讀的,片段中的形象很有說服力，那麽你們去想想會什麽會信服,作爲讀者。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年後的美國小說課程節選
They did this because they didn't want the upper-class in Rome, who were the elite, they didn't want any one household, or any small group of households, to become too powerful.
因爲他們不想羅馬的上層堦級，即精英堦層，一戶獨大。
耶魯公開課 - 新約課程節選
Where and when do you want to peak, ? as it were, in terms of your accomplishments?
你想在什麽時間到達巔峰，如果它說的是你的成就方麪？
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節選

And when you said in the House of Representatives that you were going to tackle earmarks -- in fact, you didn't want to have any earmarks in any of your bills -- I jumped up out of my seat and applauded you.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Takes Questions at GOP House Issues Conference The White House
But as the Reagan years proved, normal is relative, and once the policy mix leaned in favor of growth, past presumptions about a future of sacrifice and want were quickly discredited.
FORBES: The 'New Normal' Myth Calls For Ronald Reagan 2.0
After several of New Orleans' public housing projects were damaged in Hurricane Katrina, city officials want to demolish the buildings — considered by many to be symbols of urban decay — and replace them with mixed-income units.
NPR: New Orleans' Controversial Public Housing Model