| 单词 | lose |
| 释义 | loseWord family noun loser loss losingadjective lost losablelost-and-foundverb lose adverblosingly lose /luːz/ ●●● S1 W1 verb (past tensepst and past participlepp lost /lɒst $ lɒːst/) 1 stop having attitude/quality etc 不再有某种态度/品质等 [transitiveT] to stop having a particular attitude, quality, ability etc, or to gradually have less of it 丧失，失去〔某种态度、品质、能力等〕 → loss I’ve lost my appetite. 我已经没有了胃口。 lose confidence/interest/hope etc The business community has lost confidence in the government. 商界已经对政府失去了信心。 Carol lost interest in ballet in her teens. 卡萝尔在十多岁的时候对芭蕾舞失去了兴趣。 Try not to lose heart (=become sad and hopeless) – there are plenty of other jobs. 不要灰心―还有很多其他的工作。 lose face (=stop having as much respect from other people) 丢面子，出丑 A settlement was reached in which neither side lost face. 达成了一个双方都不失面子的协议。 lose weight/height/speed etc You’re looking slim. Have you lost weight? 你看上去很苗条啊，体重是不是减轻了？ The plane emptied its fuel tanks as it started losing altitude. 飞机开始从高空下降时排空了油箱。 lose your sight/hearing/voice/balance etc Mr Eyer may lose the sight in one eye. 艾埃尔先生有一只眼睛可能会失明。 The tour was postponed when the lead singer lost his voice. 由于主唱失声，巡回演出推迟了。 Julian lost his balance and fell. 朱利安失去平衡摔倒了。 lose your touch (=become less skilled at doing something you used to do well) 失去技能，生疏 This latest movie proves Altman is by no means losing his touch. 这部最新影片证明奥特曼宝刀未老。 By the time the ambulance arrived, Douglas had lost consciousness. 救护车赶到时，道格拉斯已经失去知觉。 lose all sense of time/direction/proportion etc When he was writing, he lost all sense of time. 他在写作的时候完全没有了时间概念。 lose sight of something (=forget an important fact about a situation) 忽略某事 We must never lose sight of the fact that man must work in harmony with nature. 我们绝不能忘记这一点——人类必须与大自然和谐共处。 2 not win 没赢 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]LOSE A GAME, COMPETITION, OR WAR to not win a game, argument, election, war etc 输掉〔比赛、辩论、选举、战争等〕 OPP win → defeat They played so badly they deserved to lose. 他们打得这么差，输了活该。 Klinger lost his seat in the election. 克林格在选举中失去了他的席位。 Arkansas just lost three games in a row. 阿肯色队一连输了三场比赛。 He just can’t bear to lose an argument. 他和别人争论的时候就是输不起。 lose to The Beavers have dropped only one game since losing to Oregon in January. 海狸队自1月份败给俄勒冈队以来只输过一场比赛。 lose (something) by 1 goal/10 votes/20 points etc The government lost by one vote. 政府以一票之差落马。 The Communist candidate lost by a whisker (=a very small amount). 共产党候选人仅以几票之差落选。 Freddie died in 1982 after losing his battle against AIDS. 弗雷迪与艾滋病抗争失败，于1982年去世。 lose somebody something It was a rash decision, and it lost him the race (=caused him to lose the race). 这个决定太轻率，使他输掉了比赛。 3 cannot find STH 找不着某物 [transitiveT]LOSE/CAN'T FIND to become unable to find someone or something 丢失，找不到 I’ve lost the tickets for tonight’s show. 我把今晚演出的票弄丢了。 I followed her on foot, but lost her in the crowd. 我走在她后面，可是在人群中跟丢了。 It was thought the manuscript had been lost forever. 原以为这份手稿再也找不着了。 be/get lost in the post British EnglishBrE, be/get lost in the mail American EnglishAmE The parcel must have got lost in the post. 包裹肯定是在邮递过程中弄丢了。 lose track of something/somebody (=stop knowing where someone or something is) 不知道某物/某人的下落 He lost track of her after her family moved away. 她家搬走以后，他就失去了她的音信。 lose sight of something/somebody (=stop being able to see someone or something) 看不见某物/某人 → lost property Don’t try to walk in a heavy snowstorm as you may lose sight of your vehicle. 在暴风雪中不要试着下车步行，你可能会看不到自己的车子。 4 stop having STH 不再拥有某物 [transitiveT]LOSE/NOT HAVE ANYMORE if you lose something that is important or necessary, you then no longer have it, especially because it has been taken from you or destroyed 丧失，失去〔重要或需要的东西〕 → loss David’s very upset about losing his job. 戴维失去了工作非常难过。 Hundreds of people lost their homes in the floods. 成百上千的人在水灾中失去了家园。 My family lost everything in the war. 我家在战争中失去了一切。 He was over the limit and will lose his licence. 他超速驾驶，将被吊销驾驶执照。 Ninety naval aircraft were lost and thirty damaged. 90架海军飞机被毁，31架受损。 lose a chance/opportunity If you hesitate, you may lose the opportunity to compete altogether. 你如果犹豫不定，可能连参赛的机会都会失去。 lose something to somebody/something We were losing customers to cheaper rivals. 我们的客户被出价更低的竞争对手抢去了。 She was about to lose her husband to a younger woman. 她的丈夫就要被一个更年轻的女人抢去了。 California has lost 90% of its wetlands to development. 加州有90%的湿地都被用于开发建设了。 lose an arm/leg/eye etc He lost his leg in a motorcycle accident. 他在摩托车事故中失去了一条腿。 He’s lost a lot of blood but his life is not in danger. 他失血很多，但是没有生命危险。 lose somebody something the mistakes which lost him his kingdom (=caused him to lose his kingdom) 使他丢掉了王国的错误 5 death 死亡 [transitiveT]DIE a) lose your life to die 丧命，丧生 a memorial to honor those who lost their lives in the war 战争死难者纪念碑 b) if you lose a relative or friend, they die – use this when you want to avoid saying the word ‘die’ 失去〔亲属、朋友；die的委婉语〕 → loss One woman in Brooklyn lost a husband and two sons in the gang wars. 在黑帮争斗中，布鲁克林的一名妇女失去了丈夫和两个儿子。 Sadly, Anna lost the baby (=her baby died before it was born). 安娜不幸流产。 lose somebody to cancer/AIDS etc He lost his father to cancer (=his father died of cancer) last year. 去年他父亲患癌症去世。 Peter was lost at sea when his ship sank. 轮船沉没，彼得葬身大海。 6 money 钱 [intransitiveI, transitiveT] if you lose money, you then have less money than you had before （使）亏损，（使）损失 → loss lose on The company is in debt after losing an estimated $30 million on its dotcom enterprise. 公司因在网络公司业务上亏损约3,000万美元而负债。 Creditors and investors stand to lose (=risk losing) vast sums after the company’s collapse. 公司倒闭之后，债权人和投资者可能会蒙受巨大的损失。 A lot of people lost their shirts (=lost a lot of money) on Ferraris in the eighties. 80年代，许多人投资法拉利都赔光了老本。 It’s a great deal – we can’t lose! 这笔生意很合算——我们不会赔钱！ lose somebody something The stock market crash lost the banks £70 million (=caused them to lose £70 million). 股市暴跌使银行损失了7,000万英镑。 7 have nothing to lose spokenLOSE A GAME, COMPETITION, OR WAR if you have nothing to lose, it is worth taking a risk because you cannot make your situation any worse 〔即使不成功也〕不会损失什么，不会吃亏 You might as well apply for the job – you’ve got nothing to lose. 你不妨申请这份工作——你不会损失什么的。 have nothing to lose but your pride/reputation etc The working class has nothing to lose but its chains (=disadvantages, restrictions etc). 工人阶级失去的只是锁链。 have a lot/too much to lose (=used to say that you could make your situation much worse) 损失会很大 These youngsters know they have too much to lose by protesting against the system. 这些年轻人知道，如果对体制提出抗议，他们会损失惨重。 Examples from the Corpus have nothing to lose• For a meeting or two, they have nothing to lose.• As the underdog here, they have nothing to lose and everything to gain.• The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.• You have nothing to lose but your monotony.• If you are not sure whether you will be entitled to benefit, remember that you have nothing to lose by applying.• You have nothing to lose by taking action in the small claims court.• You have nothing to lose by trying out possible futures for size-it just requires an imaginative leap.• But you have nothing to lose - your life was being made a misery anyway. 8 time 时间 [transitiveT] a) if you lose time, you do not make progress as quickly as you want to or should 浪费，失去，错过 lose time/2 days/3 hours etc Vital minutes were lost because the ambulance took half an hour to arrive. 救护车半个小时后才到，错过了最关键的几分钟时间。 In 1978,29 million days were lost in industrial action. 1978年因罢工损失了2,900万个工作日。 Come on, there’s no time to lose (=do not waste time). 快点，没有时间磨蹭了。 lose no time in doing something (=do something immediately) 马上做某事 Murdock lost no time in taking out a patent for his invention. 默多克一分钟也没有耽误，马上为他的发明申请了专利。 b) if a watch, clock etc loses time, it runs too slowly and shows an earlier time than it should 〔钟表等〕走慢 OPP gain 9 lose your way/bearings a) to stop knowing where you are or which direction you should go in 迷路/迷失方向 I lost my way in the network of tiny alleys. 我在纵横交错的小巷子里迷了路。 b) to become uncertain about your beliefs or what you should do 迷失方向，不知所措 The company seems to have lost its way of late. 近来公司似乎迷失了方向。 Examples from the Corpus lose your way/bearings• Among right-wing circles this perception simply intensified their existential feeling of Angst, of having lost their bearings.• But somehow, in the zeal to get re-elected, we lost our way.• I am about to lose my way.• John had a mission to become an entrepreneur, but he went out without a road map and almost lost his way.• She claimed she had somehow been placed on an ocean liner that had lost its way at sea.• He lit another cigarette and left, losing his way at the end of the corridor.• When my wife left me, I kind of lost my bearings for a while.• He had lost his bearings on a trip to nearby shops a few weeks earlier.• The Congressional black caucus has lost its way since Republicans took over Congress.• I completely lose my bearings when I go outside the city. 10 lose touch (with somebody/something) a) CONTACT somebodyif two people lose touch, they gradually stop communicating, for example by no longer phoning or writing to each other （和某人）失去联系 I’ve lost touch with all my old school friends. 我和所有老同学都失去了联系。 They lost touch when Di got married and moved away. 迪结婚搬走以后，他们就失去了联系。 b) NOT KNOWif you lose touch with a situation or group, you are then no longer involved in it and so do not know about it or understand it 〔因不再接触某情况或团体而〕不了解（某事），不明白（某事） They claim the prime minister has lost touch with the party. 他们声称首相对该党事务已不再了解了。 It sometimes appears that the planners have lost touch with reality. 有时候规划者好像与现实脱节。 Examples from the Corpus lose touch (with somebody/something)• De Lavallade drifted away from Alvin, although they never completely lost touch.• It is also very easy to lose touch.• Over the years we just lost touch with each other.• She said she had lost touch with him.• I was begin-ning to lose touch with my body, floating away to distant places.• Command economies are usually so centralized that they lose touch with the differences and complexities of individual firms and consumers.• Salibi says that the Massoretes had lost touch with the language of the Bible and made many distortions.• Employees and their managers lost touch with their customers and fiefdoms arose.• Those who pay for education, for example, may lose touch with what is taught and with the methods used.• A lot of producers have lost touch with what makes good music. 11 lose your temper/cool/rag to become angry 发脾气，发怒 lose your temper/cool/rag with Diana was determined not to lose her temper with him. 黛安娜决意不对他发火。 Examples from the Corpus lose your temper/cool/rag• Bunny wasn't the only one to lose his temper.• That was plainly evident in the locker room, where Hostetler teetered on the brink of openly losing his temper.• I should not have lost my cool and behaved in that manner.• He obviously had impregnation on his mind, but by now Lydia had lost her temper and she told him to get stuffed.• I then walked across to the photographers and lost my temper, lost my head.• Never-absolutely never in my experience-did President Reagan really lose his temper or utter a rude or unkind word.• Why did he always choose to lose his temper over issues in which he was in the wrong?• She couldn't blame him for frightening Anna, for losing his temper with the child. 12 lose your head to become unable to behave calmly or sensibly 失去理智 You’ve all heard that Nadal lost his head over a girl? 你们都听说了吗？纳达尔疯狂地爱上了一个女孩。 Examples from the Corpus lose your head• Actually, not all of the men had lost their heads.• He made a sort of feeble pretence of being afraid that he might lose his head.• There was always something around the corner if you didn't lose your head.• But he must not lose his head and try to make up the distance all at once.• But you lose your head in this crazy hellhole, you do, and different rules apply.• The bull market in bonds finally lost its head of steam.• Buckingham lost his head over the matter.• I must be losing my head, she thought. 13 lose your mind to become crazy 发疯 SYN go crazy, go mad Nicholas looked at her as if she’d lost her mind. 尼古拉斯看着她，就好像她发疯了一样。 Examples from the Corpus lose your mind• What are you doing on the roof? Have you lost your mind?• Is Roberto correct when he insists that he is innocent and she has lost her mind?• Obviously she was losing her mind.• The musicians are completely losing their minds.• There came a day shortly afterwards when I could no longer ignore the fact that he was losing his mind.• What is not bogus is the position Selda Soyturk is in today because a guy lost his mind behind the wheel.• Some victims feel they are losing their minds or are about to die.• Either she was losing her mind, or she'd followed the wrong man.• PipThe Negro cabin boy who loses his mind when abandoned temporarily in the sea. 14 lose it spoken informal a) SHOW A FEELING OR ATTITUDEto become very angry and upset 气疯 She completely lost it with one of the kids in class. 她被班上的一个孩子气疯了。 b) CRAZY (also lose the plot) to become crazy or confused 发疯；迷惑 I could see people thinking I’d totally lost the plot. 我看得出来，人们都以为我彻底发疯了。 Examples from the Corpus lose it• After her mom and dad were killed in the car accident, Ginny just seemed to lose it.• Why try and pressurize myself into losing it?• Whatever Brad said must have made her angry because she totally lost it.• In fact we had never lost it.• Poor guy, he lost it.• They will not know why you have lost it.• Love, love that had always held pain through fear of losing it but had finally become a torment.• Pete just lost it completely and started shouting and screaming at us.• If they lose it, they will probably lose their majority.• Maybe he had lost it when running away from the fracas of metal and hollow clacking of gunfire.• You really lose it when you get around your family. 15 lose yourself in something TAKE PART/BE INVOLVEDto be paying so much attention to something that you do not notice anything else 全神贯注于某事，专心于某事 She listened intently to the music, losing herself in its beauty. 她专注地听着音乐，完全沉浸在美妙的旋律之中。 Examples from the Corpus lose yourself in something• He had never been able to lose himself in a crowd, or dash off somewhere suddenly on a whim.• A generation loses itself in an inner world of feeling and self-awareness, oblivious of outside forces.• Perfecting themselves, though, there is little chance that they will lose themselves in anyone else.• Small children have the ability to lose themselves in imaginary worlds.• A line of track ran one way to nothing and lost itself in nothing in the other direction.• Men say I am a saInt losing myself in politics.• And though she longed to lose herself in the flames, to be consumed and reborn, she was also terribly afraid.• Like the owl, it could lose itself in the forest. 16 escape 摆脱 [transitiveT] if you lose someone who is chasing you, you manage to escape from them 摆脱，甩掉〔追赶者〕 There’s a better chance of losing him if we take the back route. 我们如果走小路，就更有可能摆脱他。 17 confuse SB 使某人糊涂 [transitiveT] spoken informal to confuse someone when you are trying to explain something to them 〔试图解释时〕把…搞糊涂 Explain it again – you’ve lost me already. 再解释一遍吧——你都把我搞糊涂了。 18 remove STH 除去某物 [transitiveT] to remove a part or feature of something that is not necessary or wanted 去掉，拿掉，删掉 You could lose the last paragraph to make it fit on one page. 你可以把最后一段删掉，这样就能放到一页里了。 19 lose something in the translation/telling to be less good than the original form 翻译/转述过程中失去了味道 The joke loses something in the translation. 这个笑话翻译过来就失去味道了。 Examples from the Corpus lose something in the translation/telling• It probably loses something in the translation from the original Latin. 20 lose out phrasal verbphr v GETto not get something good, valuable etc because someone else gets it instead 失去，丧失〔好的或有价值的东西〕 → lost2, → lose count at count2(3), → lose sleep over something at sleep2(4) The deal will ensure that shareholders do not lose out financially. 这个协议将确保股东在经济上不会有损失。 to He lost out to Roy Scheider for the lead role. 他当主角的机会被罗伊·施奈德抢走了。 on Workers who don’t take up training may lose out on promotion. 没有接受培训的工人可能会丧失升职机会。 Examples from the Corpus lose out• It's simple -- unless you make an effort you're going to lose out.• Time and time again, women seem to lose out on promotions and career opportunities.• In the end we lost out to a French company because they could do the job cheaper. lose to• Andrew first lost out to Dawe in 1989, when he was dropped after the semi-final victory over Warwickshire.• Tierney was nominated for the Oscar, but lost out to Joan Crawford.• Enid Blyton has lost out to Nintendo.• Oblivious should not have tacked here since he loses out to Smart.• In the night with a light fair wind we had again lost out to the Black Stream.• Without decision-support systems, firms will lose out to their competitors. Examples from the Corpus lose• I need to lose 10 pounds before the wedding.• NRT Corporation lost $2.2 million in the most recent quarter on sales of $6.3 million.• I'm not playing tennis with her any more - I always lose.• In most Western democracies in the twentieth century, legislatures have lost a great deal of ground to executive branches.• Michelle lost her job again.• Sharon lost her mother when she was very young.• Professor Wilkes lost his sight in an accident three years ago.• He lost his title unexpectedly to a man who is virtually unknown outside boxing circles.• "What are you looking for?" "My purse. I think I might have lost it."• Neil put the certificate in a drawer so he wouldn't lose it.• I was a step away from triumph and did not want to lose it.• Josefina and I were plumb about to lose it.• I'll lose my job if the factory closes.• They have lost no time in sounding the alarm about an impending famine, which they say threatens 1.9m people.• Investors lost several million dollars on the project.• It's a terrible thing to lose someone very close to you.• Last week was the first time Hastert had lost such a procedural vote.• Noel lost the argument.• Everyone expected the Democrats to lose the election.• Many people think that the Democrats' tax policies lost them the election.• England lost to Brazil in the final.• I always lose when I play tennis with my sister.• Oh there you are - I thought I'd lost you.• Sorry, you lost your chance.• If you lose your credit card, phone this number immediately. lose confidence/interest/hope etc• We've lost hope..• So much for women losing interest after midlife!• In Queretaro it seems it also lost interest in doing so.• Leonora lost interest in her breakfast.• I've lost interest in it, I said.• It seemed that he had lost interest in politics.• Without recognition, people lose interest in success.• This is a problem because fathers who do not live with their children lose interest in them. losing ... battle• Against concerted action by local authorities the individual librarian would be fighting a very hard and probably losing battle.• But more worrying is that Ragu is losing his present battle.• But they were losing the battle.• Although already gravely ill, she posed for this graduation picture just days before losing her battle against cancer.• He tried hard to do this, but he was fighting a losing battle here against the rising tide of papal authority.• However, whilst such a provision can prevent the business losing the battle of forms, it can not guarantee victory.• Nor can we underestimate the consequences of losing the battle to poor eating and exercise habits. lost forever• But that Spring Hill may be lost for ever, some residents say.• Energy expressed in a passive way is lost for ever.• In the process, many irrecoverable secrets of nature are being lost for ever.• Many of these will be lost for ever, before they have even been named.• Much water has been lost for ever from Mars, blasted into space by comet and asteroid impacts.• Some would never appear, vaporized, lost for ever, having ceased to exist.• They could be lost for ever by a single failure of vigilance.• Wildlife lost for ever Many rainforest species can not live anywhere else. losing ... job• She knew her brother hated losing his job.• Ten percent of us every year are going to be losing our jobs.• Then he implied that Lynne Donato had been talking to him about me losing my job.• They fear not making the new higher performance standard and losing their jobs.• Was it fear of losing her job?• Placido Domingo will release an album that deals solely with the topics of losing your job and your girl.• Many have awful stories to tell about being bullied at school, losing jobs, broken relationships.• It could turn out eventually that losing your job has led to a whole new and better career. stand to lose• After all, what more could she possibly stand to lose?• What does the publisher or author stand to lose?• Hence a director of a company may stand to lose financially even though the company has limited liability.• Unfortunately, as already described, Croydon Corporation saw things rather differently and thought they would stand to lose financially.• Assuming that Short had been playing it straight, then there remained the question of who stood to lose if Pendero won.• But if prices decline, you stand to lose more as well.• After all, she was the one who stood to lose most.• Creditors and investors stood to lose vast sums. lose no time in doing something• After the war, physicians lost no time in prescribing it to dieters.• And true to form Graham Sale lost no time in capitalising on an opportunity presenting Douglas Hurd with his own clock.• General Grant... lost no time in pushing to the front...• He has three young daughters of his own, and loses no time in stamping his authority on the entire brood.• John the Baptist urges us to lose no time in making a straight way for the Lord.• Now with more land available, Porter lost no time in leaving his home at Canandaigua and moving to Niagara.• Telephone companies lost no time in announcing that they plan to aggressively expand.• They have lost no time in sounding the alarm about an impending famine, which they say threatens 1.9m people. From Longman Business Dictionary loselose /luːz/ verb (past tensepst and past participlepp lost /lɒstlɒːst/, present participle losing) [transitiveT] 1to stop having something any more, or to have less of it The industry has lost 60,000 jobs. After a boardroom battle, Dixon lost control of the company. They lost business by not giving credit. lose something to somebody We started losing customers to cheaper rivals. The big national chains were losing market share to independent one-person operations. 2to have less money than you had before or to spend more money than you are receiving We all lost money when the firm collapsed. The group is estimated to have lost $36 million last year. lost revenue The resulting crisis of confidence lost the bank (=caused the bank to lose) £30 million in deposits. 3FINANCEto fall to a lower figure or price In Tokyo, the Nikkei stock index lost 644.82 to close at 17,791.55. Its shares lost 25p to 104p on the results. 4lose ground to become less in value or to lose an advantage Sterling lost ground against the euro. When the bid failed to appear, shares lost ground. 5lose your shirt informal to lose a lot of money When the recession came, many companies lost their shirts. → lose out Old English losian “to destroy or be destroyed, to lose” |
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