缺席怎么说？

判断正误：

There are two absent students today. ( )

There are two students absent today. ( )

(今天有两名学生缺席。)

提示：absent 表“缺席的/不在的”时，一般不直接修饰名词，大多接在 be 动词之后。two students absent 即 two students who are absent 的省略形式。不过在英式用法中，absent可直接修饰少数的几个名词，如: He is an absent father. (他是一个经常不在家的父亲。——即他是一个不称职的父亲。) 这句话的美式说法是: He is an absentee father.