O konuşurken, sanırım ben dalgındım.
- While he was talking, I guess I was absent-minded.
Akıllı insanlar bile bazen dalgındır.
- Even smart people are sometimes absent-minded.
O bunu dalgın bir biçimde yaptı.
- He did it absentmindedly.
It took the absent-minded man twenty minutes to find his glasses on top of his head.
Even when the absent-minded professor comes in and says he wants a book he saw noticed a few weeks ago, he has forgotten the author's name and can't recall the title, but he is sure it is a good book because the Nation or the Saturday Review, he really can't remember which, said so, try to find out what he wants and get it for him.