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词组 absent
释义 absent
If someone is absent from a meeting, ceremony, or place, they are not there.
She was absent from the committee.
The Security Police discovered I was absent from my house.

Note that you use from after 'absent' in sentences like these. You do not use 'at'.

If it is clear what meeting, ceremony, or place you are talking about, you can simply say that someone is absent.
The Mongolian delegate to the assembly was absent.

Absent is a fairly formal word. In conversation, you say that someone is not at a meeting, ceremony, or place, or that they are not there.
She wasn't at Molly's wedding.
The boy wasn't at home at the time of the tragedy.
At the time when she most needed me I wasn't there.

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