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单词 to be lacking
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to be lacking
a. intransitive. To be wanting or missing; to be deficient in quantity or degree. In early use const. with dative or to. Obsolete. (But to be lacking is current; see lacking adj.)
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the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > be insufficient [verb (intransitive)] > be wanting
trokec1000
lacka1175
wantc1225
missa1250
fail13..
fault1377
defaulta1382
defaila1400
inlaik1533
the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [verb (transitive)] > fall short of > fall short by (so much)
lackc1460
want1560
there needsa1687
a1175 Cott. Hom. 233 Wat lacede ȝeu an alle mire rice þat ȝie [etc.].
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1231 Tid-like hem gan ðat water laken.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 238 And thauh my lyflode lakke letten I nulle That vche mon schal habben his.
c1405 (c1380) G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 498 Ther lakketh no thyng to thyne outter eyen That thow nart blynd.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iv. ix. 181 A crooked staf me lakketh for to cholle with.
c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) xi. 137 A subsidie..as shall accomplishe that wich shall lakke hym off such livelod.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 37/2 His drifte couertly conuayde, lacked not in helping furth his brother of Clarence to his death.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cliiijv In him lacked neither good will nor courage.
1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 85 Ye..effectual grace of sa gret a sacrament can na wayis laik heirin.
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xviii. 28 Peraduenture there shall lacke fiue of the fiftie righteous. View more context for this quotation
1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. iv. 63 A man in whom awe, imagination, and tenderness lack.
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