be in want of

基本解释

For, although they were bountiful in words, they were want of grammar or sentence construction.
因为，虽然他们认识的单词不少，可还需要接受语法和句子结构的指导。
We found that too often American men were dying in those rice paddies from want of support from our so-called allies.
我们发现很多时候美国士兵因为得不到所谓盟军的帮助而死于那些稻田里。
Some of the migrating systems were in production and we did not want to flood the I/O subsystem and cause unnecessary performance issues.
某些迁移系统尚在制作中，我们不想让 I/O 子系统溢出并导致不必要的性能问题。

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.
如果你觉得我读的,片段中的形象很有说服力，那么你们去想想会什么会信服,作为读者。
耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选
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.
因为他们不想罗马的上层阶级，即精英阶层，一户独大。
耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选
Where and when do you want to peak, ? as it were, in terms of your accomplishments?
你想在什么时间到达巅峰，如果它说的是你的成就方面？
耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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