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.

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

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

正因为如此，我们普遍缺对生命中被动元素尊重。

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

直到最近，我们才开始了解地球上这些缺阳光生命。

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.

他们最根本生存需要会得到满足，但泰罗夫认为这未来几代生命，缺记忆、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.

而一个草原，即一个缺植物生命草原环境，将无法容纳目前存在于雨林中型且多样生态系统。

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，这里海洋缺维持生命营养物质——它是一片海洋沙漠。

He calls it something dead and not alive.

他称之为死气沉沉、缺生命力东西。

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、缺危及生命辐射以及存在气和水标准可能性足够高，可以肯定。

What do we as a human community do about life that extends in a linear way but without quality.

作为一个人类共同体，我们该如何应对那种线性延续却缺质生命？

It's the only sense that, if you're deprived of it early in life, will affect development long-term.

这是唯一一种如果你在生命早期缺它，会长期影响发育感觉。

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

我想知道为什么这些孩缺水这种对生命至关重要物质。