Because of this, we generally lack respect for the passive element of life.

正因为如此，我们普遍缺乏对生命中被动元素尊重。

He calls it something dead and not alive.

他称之为死气沉沉、缺乏生命力东西。

The story of sunlight-starved life on Earth is relatively new.

直，我们才开始了解地球上些缺乏阳光生命。

But absolute poverty is when a lack of resources is literally life-threatening.

但绝对贫困是指缺乏资源确实危及生命。

I wanted to know why these kids lacked water, a substance that is essential for life.

我想知道为什么些孩子缺乏水种对生命至关重要物质。

Owing to eccentricities of the South Pacific Gyre, the sea here lacks nutrients to sustain much in the way of life-it is a marine desert.

由于南太平洋环流出现异常，海洋缺乏维持生命营养物质——它是一片海洋沙漠。

Earth's primordial soup lacked the building blocks of life – a phrase describing the most basic biological and chemical units needed to support living things, elements like oxygen and carbon.

地球原始汤缺乏生命构成要素——个短语描述是支持生物所需基本生物及化学单位，如氧和碳等元素。

Their basic needs for survival and reproduction would be met, but Dr. Taylof believes the lives of those future generations would be meaningless without memories, imagination, and culture.

他们根本生存需要会得满足，但泰罗夫认为未来几代生命，缺乏记忆、想象力和文化，会是毫无意义。

A savannah, a grassland environment that lacks a large variety of plant life, would be unable to host the large and varied ecosystems that currently exist in the rainforest.

而一个大草原，即一个缺乏大量植物生命草原环境，将无法容纳目前存在于雨林中大型且多样生态系统。

The odds of at least one being out there that meets our criteria for gravity, temperature, lack  of life-threatening radiation, and presence of atmosphere and water, are high enough to be a  certainty.

至少有一个符合我们重力、温度、缺乏危及生命辐射以及存在大气和水标准可能性足够高，可以肯定。