Definition of lose in English:

lose

verblost luːzluz

[with object]

1Be deprived of or cease to have or retain (something)
失去
I've lost my appetite
我没有胃口。
Linda was very upset about losing her job
琳达因为丢了工作很沮丧。
the company may find itself losing customers to cheaper rivals
公司可能会发现客户被价格更优惠的对手抢走了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Schools from deprived areas are still losing a proportion of their pupils, probably those with higher parental support and motivation and hence are even more deprived.
- Speaking from Paris, he said he was relieved at the outcome but still upset at having lost his job.
- But he lost his building society job because he refused to remove his eyebrow piercing.
- Schools in Bradford's most deprived areas could lose thousands of pounds of funding.
- If family support disappears and a patient loses housing or a job or both, what can the clinician do?
- I didn't dare make a move in case she got upset and I lost my free transport.
- Thousands of customers and suppliers lost money when the group collapsed into administration last year.
- It's been upsetting because we have lost a lot of our local customers, who are our main supporters.
- Players will lose time and money, people will lose jobs, and customers will lose their product.
- Businesses and service organizations were losing employees and customers weekly, daily, and eventually hourly.
- It only takes one bad experience for you to lose a potential lifetime customer.
- Workers had been warned last week that they could lose their jobs after the site lost a major contract.
- But you know, the manufacturing jobs disappear, you lose control over your space.
- As a result, customers face losing hundreds of pounds if they no longer wish to travel.
- Perhaps a third or more of all cropland is losing topsoil faster than new soil is forming, thereby reducing the land's inherent productivity.
- Customers stood to lose a large proportion of their capital because the value of the 30 companies plunged as the stock market nosedived.
- As for Tom, a clear sign when a forward has lost confidence or the appetite for the fray is when they choose to kick rather than take contact.
- Not only are they losing their jobs, they're losing their pensions as well.
- This de-motivates people - as a result they leave the party, they lose enthusiasm, they cease to be active.
- Customers risk losing music legally downloaded from the internet if they are not aware of small-print restrictions on which machines you can play the songs.
Synonyms
be deprived of, suffer the loss of, no longer have, stop having
1. 1.1with two objects Cause (someone) to fail to gain or retain (something)
  使（某人）失去（某物）
  you lost me my appointment at London University
  你让我失去了在伦敦大学的职位。
  Example sentencesExamples
  But it's a game that might lose you just as many regular readers as it gets you.
  Off I went into another manic episode, one that lost me my first job as a social worker, due to my instability.
  Spending time in an alcohol detox centre lost me my career with the federal government.
  He fulfilled his duties conscientiously, but his support for the proclamation of the district as a city lost him his seat in 1950.
  'Being female lost me my job'.
  His plea of insanity lost him his job, and his credibility.
  Synonyms
  be unable to take advantage of, fail to benefit from
2. 1.2 Be deprived of (a relative or friend) through their death.
  she lost her husband in the fire
  她的丈夫在大火中丧生。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Charlie survived the war unhurt, although he lost many relatives and close friends.
  Many cats belong to elderly, lonely people, their only companion is their furry feline. To them the loss of their beloved friend is akin to losing a close relative.
  It is far more tragic for parents to lose a child from a sudden death; it leaves them with many unsaid things and feelings of regret.
  What about the countless German families who lost their sons and husbands during the conflict?
  Mary, like the other voluntary members of the group, has a personal interest in the fight against cancer losing relatives and friends to the disease.
  For the thousands who had lost relatives or friends, it had the effect of a further slap in the face.
  A friend of mine recently lost his mother to cancer after she was hospitalized for one year.
  In recent years, he has lost a relative and a friend to the disease.
  The death of any relative is devastating but to lose three grandchildren in tragic circumstances is more than most of us could bear.
  Too many of us lose our mothers, sisters, daughters and friends to this disease.
  It was so horrible not only losing my father, but losing my closest friend too!
  My heartfelt sympathy goes out to all the families who have lost sons and husbands, fathers, brothers.
  And for my mother, this is a double loss, she has lost her friend, sister and daughter.
  Grief and pride bind the families who lost their sons, fathers, brothers, or husbands to war.
  Many of my friends, and my wife, lost grandparents during their twenties too.
  Both my parents lost relatives very dear to them, and the wider circle of relations has suffered some tough times too.
  And to those who have lost relatives and friends, be assured that you are not forgotten.
  It seems that every week a friend of mine loses a parent.
  She lost her daughter and husband in an accident and at the time she was pregnant and miscarried.
  The pair were both touched by the work of the specialist ward when they lost children to premature deaths.
3. 1.3 (of a pregnant woman) miscarry (a baby) or suffer the death of (a baby) during childbirth.
  （孕妇）流产；产下死婴
  am I going to lose the baby?
  Example sentencesExamples
  She became convinced she was losing her baby and insisted her husband take her to hospital.
  At home she rebelled, ran away, did drugs, slept around, got pregnant and lost the baby.
  But more than anything else she felt a deep sadness for the babies she had lost.
  I hope she doesn't lose the baby and die herself in the process.
  Jane felt particular empathy for couples who had problem pregnancies or who lost their baby.
  These problems increase their risk of not being able to get pregnant, losing a baby, or having a baby too early.
  Doctors are gravely concerned that she could lose her baby and the family has asked to be left in peace to cope with the ordeal.
  She did lose her third baby however, although I have no idea if this had any connection with smoking.
  However, Fiona fell pregnant and now wants to get through these nine months, knowing she could lose her baby.
  Other women said they were attacked when pregnant and claim they lost their babies.
  She has reportedly been put under round-the-clock medical care over fears she could lose her unborn baby..
  The woman was three months pregnant and lost her baby as a result of the collision.
  She was taken to hospital losing blood and was told by doctors she had been five months pregnant but had lost her baby.
  While some women may want to become pregnant fairly soon after losing a baby, the decision to have another baby is not an easy one and must be taken only when both partners feel it is right.
4. 1.4be lost Be destroyed or killed, especially as a result of an accident or military action.
  （尤指事故、军事行动中）遇难，牺牲
  a fishing disaster in which 129 men were lost
  一次导致129名当地男子死亡的渔难。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Subsequently it became known that a second lifeboat and her crew were lost in the heroic attempt to relieve the same vessel.
  Forty additional men were lost either from gunfire or tragic mishap.
  Her entire ship's company of 30 men were lost.
  Twelve men were lost and the ship abandoned; she later sank while under tow in the South Atlantic.
  While attempting rescue a small boat manned by local men capsized and four men were lost.
  The ship had 5 officers and 33 men on board when sunk, of whom 2 officers and 24 men were lost.
5. 1.5 Decrease in (body weight); undergo a reduction of (a specified amount of weight)
  减轻（体重）；减少（重量）
  she couldn't eat and began to lose weight
  她无法进食，体重开始下降。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The team which loses the most weight combined is the winner that week.
  It is imperative that he loses substantial amount of weight.
  Everyone is weighed each week and the slimmer who loses the most weight each week is praised and earns the title of ‘Slimmer of the Week’.
  She had tried other slimming classes but was unsuccessful as any weight she lost she put back on again quickly.
  Become concerned if the patient begins to lose more weight than 6 pounds in 6 months.
  However, having lost some weight I am still not a size 10 and the dress is too tight.
  If someone loses much more weight, it could be a cause for concern.
  Subsequent programmes should be based on how much weight has been lost initially.
  They also showed trends toward losing lesser amounts of body weight.
  To lose body weight, essentially you have to burn more calories than you take in.
  I've not lost the amount of weight I hoped but I have lost some and I'm feeling a lot better for it.
  And that motivation, rather than the diet, might explain whatever weight they lose.
  They should not generally be advised to lose any more weight, but I would suggest they work on their shape.
  If you really need a number, a healthy amount of weight to lose is about one pound per week.
  Now fully recovered, she wanted to reclaim her body and lose some of the weight she had gained as a result of all the medication.
  But, remember, the amount of weight you lose is entirely at your own discretion and you can join in or drop out of the campaign at any time.
  That helped him tone up, lose a little more weight, and feel even better.
  I lost some weight last year in an effort to calm down my increasingly regular heartburn.
  Weight management is a complex issue, so that the amount of weight lost will vary for each individual.
  He weighs her to make sure she is losing the amount of weight he has demanded.
6. 1.6 (of a watch or clock) become slow by (a specified amount of time)
  （钟表）变慢（若干时间）
  this clock will neither gain nor lose a second
  这个钟走时丝毫不差。
  Example sentencesExamples
  For example: If your watch loses 5 seconds while being worn during the day, try to find a position in which the watch gains about 5 seconds overnight.
  On most days, the watch loses about 0.5 seconds.
  They gradually fell out of step, with one clock losing 5 seconds a day in relation to the other.
  It also depends on the constancy of its rate; meaning, that a watch gains or loses the exact same amount of time each day.
  Unfortunately the watch loses 11 seconds a day.
7. 1.7lose itinformal Become unable to control one's temper or emotions.
  〈非正式〉情绪失控
  I completely lost it—I was screaming at them
  最后我实在控制不了情绪，冲着他们大叫了起来。
  Example sentencesExamples
  If I see something that slightly resembles a spider, I'll freak out and lose it right on the spot.
  I'm told Roseanna has lost it completely and has taken to sticking pins into wax images of her old pal Nicola.
  As they watched us, mainlanders would shake their heads and wonder whether we had lost it completely.
  This scene is particularly important since in the very act of proving his manhood, the hero loses it completely.
  Since the illness, well in the last few weeks really, he's lost it over trivial stupid things.
  There is a moment in the book when Patrick completely loses it.
  If he calls her Tracey I will lose it completely and burst out laughing.
  Sadly, Hunter loses it completely in the next paragraph.
  This was it, for me - the moment that I lost it and started crying uncontrollably.
  Any suggestions that she was losing it are hereby completely rescinded.
  I think it was at this time that I lost it, because I did not realise a crime was taking place.
  I completely lost it and shouted and screamed at him about how selfish he is.
  He could have lost it completely and run off screaming into the night, with no one at all on his tail.
  I don't know what triggered it this time around, or what it is that keeps holding me back from losing it completely.
  Josie rose to me, to keep me from losing it completely, but she was too slow.
  The last thing she remembered before losing it completely was moving away from town.
  I like that scene where Eva completely loses it and throws Kevin across the room and breaks his arm.
  He completely loses it, and lays his head down on the table, enjoying the moment.
  Synonyms
  become very angry, fly into a rage, explode, blow up, erupt, lose control, go berserk, breathe fire, begin to rant and rave, flare up, boil over
2Become unable to find (something or someone)
丢失
I've lost the car keys
我把汽车钥匙弄丢了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Often the end customer loses the cargo once it leaves rail-carrier control, even though it is on his own sideline in the company yard.
- They are reminded of what they have been missing, what has been long lost or forgotten.
- Forget one suitcase (which was found), imagine losing everything.
- We lost the car keys before and I used the mini torch to help me find them again.
- Second is the fact that he is a most forgetful man and loses his all the time.
- The customer had lost his invoice. It took him a minute to pull up the information.
- Customers, who lose their key, are asked to choose the closest model from the hundreds of samples.
- It's been lost, of course, in all the wanderings and dissolutions, which is sad.
Synonyms
mislay, misplace, be unable to find
drop, forget, overlook, lose track of, leave (behind), fail to keep/retain, fail to keep sight of
1. 2.1 Cease or become unable to follow (the right route)
  迷路
  the clouds came down and we lost the path
  云幕渐渐低垂，我们迷路了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I began to turn away, back towards the forest that I was sure to lose myself in, but he called out in urgency.
  But at Reelsville they lost the Road. He wrote, "Not a track was to be seen on the smooth green turf beneath the tall, shady oak trees."
  Eventually emerging onto St James's Road, we lost the path.
  Heather pushed her way through a dense growth of rhododendrons; she had completely lost the path now.
  For several days we lost ourselves in the labyrinth of the old centre.
  So, arriving ahead of time, I lose myself for 10 minutes down a path really called Dunwoman's Lane.
  As for me, well my love for New York runs so deep that I would gladly have lost myself in the city and stayed forever!
  To add to their difficulties, when they were far advanced among the hills, their guide lost the road, and was never able to regain it.
  Synonyms
  stray from, wander from, depart from, go astray from, fail to keep to, fail to keep in sight
  get lost, lose one's bearings
2. 2.2 Evade or shake off (a pursuer)
  甩掉，摆脱（追踪者）
  he came after me waving his revolver, but I easily lost him
  他在后面挥动着左轮手枪跟着我，但我轻易地甩掉了他。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He ducks into an alleyway in an attempt to lose his pursuers, but before he can scurry over a low wall, they catch up.
  He realised now that he would never lose such a determined pursuer in these corridors.
  He ducked and dodged around the buildings, trying to lose his pursuers but they managed to stay on his tail.
  There were no more trees with which to lose his pursuers, only a stretch of stone, snow dunes, and mountainside.
  Once there, the gunman hoped to lose his pursuers in the maze of large buildings.
  Synonyms
  escape from, evade, elude, dodge, avoid, give someone the slip, shake off, throw off, throw off the scent, duck, get rid of
  leave behind, outdistance, outstrip, outrun, outpace, get ahead of
  informal ditch
  archaic bilk
3. 2.3North American informal Get rid of (an undesirable person or thing)
  〈北美，非正式〉除掉，干掉（不喜欢的人或物）
  lose that creep!
  干掉那讨厌的家伙。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Oh, thank God, we get to lose that awful two-tone weave!
  You need to lose that creep before he pressures you into more things you don't want to do.
  They need to lose that awful voiceover.
4. 2.4informal Cause (someone) to be unable to follow an argument or explanation.
  〈非正式〉使弄不懂
  sorry, Tim, you've lost me there
  蒂姆，很抱歉，你把我弄糊涂了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He lost me there when he went into politician speak.
  This guy is losing me with his explanation of Mrs. Jones though.
  I have to admit he lost me there.
  This is where he loses me, and it's where the traditionalist argument always loses me.
5. 2.5lose oneself in/be lost in Be or become deeply absorbed in (something)
  沉湎于；专注于
  he had been lost in thought
  他陷入了沉思。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I lost myself in the wonderful food and conversation.
  With a book in hand, I'd dive joyfully into the world being created, absorbing every word into my skin, losing myself in the pages.
  He felt as if he'd been doused in a bucket of cold water suddenly, so profound was the shock of being dragged forcibly out of the memory he had lost himself in.
  He says, ‘Once we have lost ourselves in the world the puppets create, we accept the message without even realising that we are learning.’
  When you go to one of those stories, part of what you are doing is trying to lose yourself in something and then you go home and you think about it.
  If there was ever an album worth losing yourself in, this is it.
  But let me tell you, gardening really is one of those activities you can lose yourself in, you don't think of anything but what you're doing.
  I sat on my bed for hours on end, with my albums and my pop magazines, and lost myself in music.
  He soon lost himself in the dream world of cinema.
  To be honest I wanted something that would be pleasurable, that would fill up my time, that I could lose myself in.
  The things that we used to romanticize and use as an escape have come back with a hard edge, as forces to be reckoned with rather than as dreams to lose ourselves in.
  I would shirk my daily responsibilities, lay in front of the TV for hours, smoking and losing myself in what was on.
  A really quiet and disciplined audience lost themselves in symphonies of Schubert and Mozart.
  Later that afternoon, I located the book on the library shelves upstairs, and I lost myself in re-reading the novel.
  This album is a dark, tempestuous but highly inviting place that you could quite easily lose yourself in, and there's a real chance that you won't want to return.
  Athletics was my refuge, something I could lose myself in.
  If you've ever lost yourself in a book, a film or a piece of music, if you've ever travelled abroad on your own, you'll know about that moment of hesitation when you return to find your old life, seemingly unchanged, waiting to engulf you.
  I can go on raving about this film but I just prefer to let you guys watch it and lose yourself in one of the most immersive cinema experiences ever.
  The deep notes put forth by the pseudo-lute were something you could lose yourself in.
  A lone tourist baked in the sun as he lost himself in what must have been an enthralling book.
  Synonyms
  absorb, engross, occupy, engage, involve, engulf, bury
3Fail to win (a game or contest)
输掉；未赢得（游戏，竞赛）
England lost the first Test match
no object they lost by one vote
他们以一票之差败北。
Example sentencesExamples
- They failed to capitalize and ended up losing the game 6-3, coming home with the bronze medal.
- The Cork side have lost all four games to date, so on all known form this should result in a Naas victory.
- They failed to reach the knock out stages after narrowly losing the group games.
- It was a pity that either side had to lose this game, as both contributed so much to a wonderful evening's entertainment.
- England have defaulted a match in this tournament, but are yet to lose a game on the field.
- New Jersey took a 21-point lead into the final period of that contest yet lost the game.
- The bottom line is that Canada hates to lose a hockey game.
- That said however neither side deserved to lose a game that was played under the most appalling conditions.
- Games between these sides have always been close encounters and so this game proved with neither side deserving to lose the game.
- Something had to give in the Premiership game of the day when undefeated Aberdeen took on a Melrose team who have gone four games without losing a match.
- Neither side deserved to lose a game that see-sawed back and forth for the whole hour-plus.
- It was a brave decision, but the correct one as neither side deserved to lose this particular game.
- Remember last year Tour lost the same game and went on to a county final success later in the year.
- He lost in the match of the season to the current league champions and then lost a tight game away to an improving Aston Villa side.
- Both sides, having lost their opening games to Pakistan, are without a point in the tournament.
- Neither side deserved to lose this game but with just three minutes left on the clock Ballyhar struck for the winner.
- They had been the champions, now they lost the fifth game of the first round at home.
- They won all four league games and lost the final to West Indies in the Triangular in Zimbabwe.
- After the election, he fought to keep it in the same spot, failed, and lost the race.
- It still is a surprise when the country that invented basketball loses an international game.
Synonyms
be defeated, be beaten, suffer defeat, be the loser, be conquered, be vanquished, be trounced, be worsted, be bested by, get the worst, have the worst, come off second-best, lose out, fail, come to grief, meet one's waterloo
1. 3.1with two objects Cause (someone) to fail to win (a game or contest)
  使（某人）失去（某物）
  that shot lost him the championship
  那一枪使他与冠军无缘。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I was just a pawn in his game, he'd have moved on and thrown me away when I lost him his game.
  You have to realize that you missing one shot or turning the ball over one time is not going to lose you a game.
  That was enough to lose him that world championship he desired.
  Then you realise that he's not making mistakes playing a game in which a quarterback can more easily lose you a game than win it.
  If your opponent has already captured three of your yellow ghosts then he's in a bit of trouble as any capture he makes runs the risk of losing him the game.
  His antics lost him the first game, for which he didn't arrive, and the second, which he threw away.
  I love Brady because he never misses a week and he rarely does anything to lose you games.
  I really fear making a mistake or a wrong decision that costs us points or loses us games.
  Synonyms
  be defeated by, be beaten by, be conquered by, be vanquished by, be trounced by, be worsted by, be bested by, be beaten into second place by
4Earn less (money) than one is spending or has spent.
入不敷出，亏损
the paper is losing £1.5 million a month
这家报纸每月亏损150万英镑。
no object he lost heavily on box office flops
票房收入走低使他损失惨重。
Example sentencesExamples
- Despite a reported rise in advertising revenue, the paper continued to lose money.
- Our competitors will raise their prices because they're losing money.
- On the ownership side of it, I'm the one who has to control spending, especially if you're losing money.
- None of those networks wanted to show the news because it's expensive, they lose money on it.
- The society also operates a compensation scheme so clients will not lose money if funds are not recovered.
- He dealt with a number of restituted properties, but found he was losing money rather than profiting.
- Two of the seven ready meals factories were losing money.
- A similar number of posts were cut in 2003 when the company, losing money heavily at the time, announced it was off-shoring some operations to India.
- In fact, many of us who export are already losing money, but hoping that the dollar will drop so that our businesses will survive.
- That means that the government would lose money with the current tax structure.
- This has resulted in the nation losing a lot money as funds continue being spent on the same projects and in this way progress is retarded.
- Although the company claims it was not losing money, profit levels were thought to have been negligible.
- In terms of real money, Americans are losing income faster than at any time since the Great Depression.
- For the race promoter, every single event is a gamble between losing money, earning money, or just breaking even.
- To the best of my knowledge it still loses money so why spend even more money breaking the company up even further.
- These investors have been badly hit by the cutback in policy values and have lost substantial sums of money.
- They were told that the paper was losing money and there were no other interested buyers.
- This column has always argued that economic freedom and the opportunity to make, spend and lose money is central to a creative society.
- The airlines have taken away all the frills because they claim to be losing huge sums of money.
- The fund only loses money when the proposed deal is not completed for any reason.
5Waste or fail to take advantage of (time or an opportunity)
未能赶上；错过（时间，机会）
he has lost his chance of becoming world No. 1
他可能已经错过夺取世界冠军的机会。
the government lost no time in holding fresh elections
政府抓紧时间举行新选举。
Example sentencesExamples
- It is certainly an issue I raised at the time, but time has passed and that opportunity has been lost.
- Unfortunately, she was gone in a blink of an eye and the opportunity to speak was lost.
- If the idea of buying a sugar company scared the growers, losing such an opportunity was worse.
- But, if we continue to bury our heads in the sand then these opportunities will be lost.
- Just when it seemed we were getting the go ahead, it looks like this opportunity might be lost.
- Out in the hallway Tim cursed silently as the gunfire sounded, knowing that their slim advantage had just been lost.
- But trains would have to reverse on departure from both, so any advantage would be completely lost.
- Was I saying that I needed to move faster, or else I would lose all of my chances?
- Many such opportunities would be lost if the market for generic phonenames did not exist.
- A great opportunity has been lost which would have rid our game of cynical fouling.
- That opportunity has been forever lost, to the relief of those who would now live under its flight path.
- It would be a great shame for this opportunity to be lost, mostly on the grounds of increased traffic.
- An opportunity will be lost, and proper democracy will remain just that bit further out of reach.
- Tying up an opponent is usually good, but it also ties up one of yours which can lose a valuable scoring opportunity.
- For without it, the developing world and the millions in it who live in extreme poverty will lose the best chance they have of improving their lot in life.
- Some might operate on or near the surface, losing much of their advantage.
- Both chances have been lost - the first in part, the second it seems conclusively.
- He repeated that it was time all worked together to ensure that we did not lose such a real opportunity for the West of Ireland.
- The opportunity that was lost was the opportunity to challenge the Local Plan.
- Outside the project this investment opportunity may well be lost.
Synonyms
neglect, waste, squander, fail to grasp, fail to take, fail to take advantage of, let pass, miss, forfeit, give up, ignore, disregard
informal pass up, lose out on

Usage

The verb lose is sometimes mistakenly written as loose, as in this would cause them to loose 20 to 50 per cent (correct form is … to lose 20 to 50 per cent). There is a word loose, but it is very different—normally an adjective, meaning ‘untethered; not held in place; detached’, as in loose cobbles; the handle was loose; set loose

Phrases

have nothing to lose

Be in a situation that is so bad that even if an action is unsuccessful it cannot make it any worse.
已然身陷绝境，何须计较得失？
she decided she had nothing to lose by taking the initiative
Example sentencesExamples
- If not, I have nothing to lose by telling you the truth.
- Nobody expects us to win and so we have nothing to lose.
- ‘When I'm abroad I feel I have nothing to lose and everything to gain,’ he says.
- A year ago she beat players because she adopted a youthful attitude of having nothing to lose.
- Sentenced to die, a convicted contract killer has nothing to lose when he snatches a policeman's pistol.
- ‘We have nothing to lose and everything to gain from the game,’ he said.
- As someone who's faced more than her share of hardships lately, she should know a thing or two about having nothing to lose by taking a chance.
- We have nothing to lose, because we had nothing to start with.
- We've been boxed into a corner and have nothing to lose.
- You have nothing to lose but stand to gain peace of mind!

lose heart

Become discouraged.
灰心，气馁
seeing all the things that had to be done, she lost heart
Example sentencesExamples
- It really is like a war zone there and we are losing heart.
- Professional athletes have found that dogged persistence, stamina and endurance - and never giving up, letting up, or losing heart is one of the main keys to becoming a great professional athlete.
- This is the one hurdle at which most listeners coming in hope, tend to falter and often lose heart and turn away.
- However discouraging the prospect, he never lost heart.
- What should have happened was the next week they should have marched again, but after that march people really lost heart.
- There is no reason for him to lose heart because such things have happened in the past.
- Even the most dedicated health professional, faced with continuing requests to do more with less, eventually loses heart and looks for employment in the private sector or outside the industry.
- He finds he is not fit physically for the struggle, and he loses heart and gives up.
- The activists are said to have lost heart, and the floating voters - unhappy at progress in the health service and education - will not bother to walk to the polling booth.
- By then the protesters appeared to have lost heart and left the lecture hall looking disconsolate as the audience gave Mr Jones a round of applause.
Synonyms
be despondent, lose heart, give up hope, become dispirited, become dejected, despond

lose height

(of an aircraft) descend to a lower level in flight.
（飞机）降低飞行高度
Example sentencesExamples
- The plane lost height very quickly with three stops on the way down.
- Just one second later, 44 seconds before the collision, the Swiss air traffic controller instructed the Tupolev to lose height as quickly as possible, contrary to the automatic warning he had just received.
- Despite it being a biplane, I really did need very low power settings and improbably high speeds to make it lose height.
- Paul made a pass, then circled back round for his landing, as the revs dropped we lost height then glided in for a smooth landing.
- This would cause the airplane to lose height rapidly at about 3000 feet per minute.
- If you ease off the power, the plane loses height quite quickly.
- Half an hour later the airplane lost height again and the captain was on the loudspeakers once more: ‘This is your captain speaking.’
- You begin to lose height very quickly and it is important to take care on this descent.
- It was really getting a lot darker now so I cut back to tickover and began to lose height to come in to land.
- It was losing height and its engine started to splutter and finally, after catching again, died away.

lose one's mind (or one's marbles)

informal Go insane.
〈非正式〉精神失常
Example sentencesExamples
- She laughed, her eyes weren't focused and she seemed to have lost her mind and gone insane.
- A long time ago he began to lose his mind and he started imagining things that are not real.
- So then I went to Nantucket and lost my mind for a minute.
- But in his circles all neurological problems were known as having lost one's marbles.
- Sometimes the cause is not very clear and we think that we have lost our mind, that we are crazy.
- Tragically, his boat was later found adrift, no sign of him on board, and in a filthy cabin were the insane diary entries of one who had clearly lost his mind.
- I lost my mind and I ran back home, trying to explain it to my mom.
- She looked at me as if I had lost my mind, then she looked out the window.
- I pretty much lost my mind between March and September.
- Yes, I've probably lost my mind, but if that's true, I don't really care.
Synonyms
become insane, lose one's reason, lose one's mind, take leave of one's senses, go off one's head, go crazy

lose sleep

usually with negativeWorry about something.
担心，忧虑
no one is losing any sleep over what he thinks of us
没人在意他怎样看我们。
Example sentencesExamples
- But people now losing sleep over looming crime should control the urge to adopt desperate devices, which may also cause them to lose friends.
- When she was five, I lost sleep over sending her to kindergarten.
- I struggled with this and even lost sleep over it.
- It is not something I lose sleep worrying about.
- The worst thing that the civilised world lost sleep over was the impending Millennium.
- The owner says he has avoided layoffs, but he's losing sleep.
- He lost sleep trying to find the right tone, but shedding the classical acting style helped.
- The Pope, who aides say is losing sleep over the possibility of war, celebrated a Mass that began with a stiff wind blowing in from Siberia over the flat steppes and ended in sunshine.
- It's a brave move and I must admit I have lost sleep over it.
- True, from time to time, feelings will be hurt in these discussions, but why lose sleep worrying about the self-esteem problems of politicians?
Synonyms
fret, be worried, be concerned, be anxious, agonize, brood, dwell on, panic, get in a panic, lose sleep, get worked up, get in a fluster, get overwrought, be on tenterhooks

lose one's (or the) way

1Become unable to find one's way.
丢失
we took a wrong turn and lost our way
Example sentencesExamples
- Gardaí believe he may have become disorientated in the dark and lost his way before straying into a field and falling into a slurry pit.
- The fog causes Alec to lose his way, and the moonlight comes out when he returns to Tess sleeping.
- On the way to Aisha, a true indigenous Berber woman, we managed to lose the way many times.
- You cannot really lose the way since you only need stay on the top of the ridge and go up.
- I wasn't the only one who lost the way either so just be sure to keep your wits about you.
- Pushing through the trees and undergrowth was definitely not fun, and there were several panicky parts where I was sure that we had lost our way, but now, finally, we were clear of that.
- Lost in thought, Leon didn't realize that he had lost his way, his horse having wandered away from the group.
- Being unable to read sometimes slowed me down when I lost my way on the road and kept me from being all I could be, but it no longer saddened me.
- When he tried he would lose his way and not only couldn't he find the water, he couldn't find his way back to the barn.
- Thomas ran and ran, and was able to escape from the big dog; but, by that time he had lost his way.
1. 1.1No longer have a clear idea of one's purpose or motivation in an activity.
  〈喻〉（办事或经营中）不再有明确目标（或动力）；迷失方向
  the company has lost its way and should pull out of general insurance
  公司已经迷失了经营方向，应该撤出常规保险业务。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The difficult thing is doing what I do, getting hold of players who have lost their way and making them into good ones.
  His lectures were extremely clear and well-organized; he never lost his way in complicated arguments.
  They began as Keynesian demand management adherents but lost their way during the economic crisis of the 1970's to finish up mild monetarists.
  I was making the point that we had really lost our way and lost the support of a lot of folks.
  Acres of land had been left wasting, livestock and citrus farming had lost their way and the workers had been retrained in professional and academic disciplines, he said.
  As the years have gone by, I have come to believe that when we lose that spark of innocence, we begin to wander like sheep and inevitably lose our way.
  France, eventually unable to withstand the English pressure once the home side had started to put their game together, lost their way in the final quarter.
  It is this consent and the belief in that promise which is wavering as fighting spreads - and along with it the idea that they are losing their way and have no clear idea how to reassert themselves.
  ‘It is clear that the Government have lost their way on law and order,’ he writes.
  But to me, it says a lot more about how newspaper editors - and not readers - have lost their way.

you can't lose

Used to express the belief that someone must inevitably profit from an action or undertaking.
包赚，包你得益
we're offering them for only £2.50—you can't lose!
我们仅以2.5英镑的价格提供商品，包你得益！
Example sentencesExamples
- Here we will look at another Craps betting option in which, for one roll anyway, you can't lose!
- Do what you love with people you care about, and you can't lose.
- He convinces you if you play the schemes right, you can't lose.
- Forget the nervous breakdown Helen, take my advice and go for it girl - you can't lose.
- Go on, you can't lose and you just might acquire the confidence to make an outstanding success at your home business or other challenging venture!
- As long as you follow this rule, you can't lose!
- You should bet the table limit, because you can't lose.
- Go for it - you can't lose.
- In other words, you can't lose, and you can only gain.
- For the most part, keep being a good friend and see what develops; Even if you don't become boyfriend / girlfriend, you'll have a great guy pal - either way, you can't lose!

Phrasal Verbs

lose out

1Be beaten in competition.
（在竞争中）失败；（被）取代
they lost out to France in the finals
Example sentencesExamples
- It is thought that Urbis, which was supposed to pay for itself, has lost out to the Imperial War Museum, the revamped City Art Gallery and the Museum of Science and Industry, which are all free.
- The Scots lost out to Wales 22-14 in the opening round of the event, but hope for better things in the 2.30 pm kick-off today.
- Scotland may have lost out to Ireland as the location for the filming of Braveheart but Scottish Screen is to hit back in its biggest drive ever to attract Hollywood film-makers to the country.
- In cold and wintry conditions in Kirkwall on Saturday, Orkney's First and Second rugby squads lost out to their visiting opponents.
- In the end, he narrowly lost out to Australian double-act Lano & Woodley.
- What do you give the company that had every advantage going and still lost out to smaller, less privileged competitors?
- Only two of the ten performers up before the public vote on Saturday night were able to make it through to the final round and Kate was among those who lost out to fellow contestants Mark and Roxanne.
- There were runs galore at Rawtenstall where the home side lost out to Werneth after the visitors had plundered 307-6 off the home attack.
- Meanwhile, a further blow has been dealt to Scottish sailing with the announcement that Edinburgh will not feature in the Volvo Ocean Race having lost out to Rotterdam.
- She added that the town also lost out to places such as Moreton and Stow, which have more picturesque architecture and passing tourist traffic.
- Now we learn that Scotland has lost out to Newcastle over a donation of at least £1m because of this dogged refusal to countenance educational alternatives.
- In 1980, Denis Healey lost out to Michael Foot, and Labour imploded.
- Scotland's rolling glens and scenic lochs have already lost out to eastern Europe and are now losing the battle to attract India's lucrative film industry, movie chiefs have warned.
- Two unhappy chappies who lost out to female candidates at the last election obtained a finding under employment laws that all-women lists were illegal.
- Plans for the building to replace five temporary classrooms at the school have been on hold since the Council lost out to a higher bidder for the land earlier this year.
- When Celtic lost out to Basle in a Champions League qualifier 14 months ago, it was widely agreed that the side were back-sliding.
- Division three leaders Frog lost out to Holgate WMC.
- ‘I really thought that I'd done my stint as leader, but when David lost out to a handful of votes a lot of new councillors were voted in,’ she said.
- The music industry says it has lost out to free, unauthorised song-sharing websites and the proliferation of CD-copying.
- Peers yesterday urged Ministers to step in if the National Railway Museum lost out to a foreign investor in the bidding war for the train.
Synonyms
be defeated, be beaten, suffer defeat, be the loser, be conquered, be vanquished, be trounced, be worsted, be bested by, get the worst, have the worst, come off second-best, lose out, fail, come to grief, meet one's waterloo
2Be deprived of an opportunity; be disadvantaged.
未能得到；错过；未能赶上
youngsters who were losing out on regular schooling
错过接受正规教育机会的年轻人。
Example sentencesExamples
- It also argues that the public is now losing out on their return for investment as it is being taken away from them by the government.
- The recent Easter celebrations, which according to the Bulgarian tradition include eating lamb, were a little overshadowed by news that the country is losing out on lamb exports.
- Understandably, with farmers facing loss of income through losing out on premiums and sale of lambs, the scheme has evoked a good deal of anger among the sheep farming community.
- ‘Without milk and eggs, you are losing out on nutrients,’ she says.
- They also created fascinating projects that showed how to save cement and other construction materials, without losing out on quality or strength of the structure.
- Owners of shops, hotels and business establishments on this street, felt they were losing out on genuine customers who couldn't find space for their vehicles.
- It is a huge problem because prisoners who are taking drugs do not take part in the various programmes available to them in the jail and are losing out on that chance.
- That's a huge dent in our finances and obviously if we have to remain closed, we're losing out on a massive chunk of our income at the same time.
- Many of these farmers did not have an opportunity to increase numbers and as a result, are losing out on any compensation.
- As a Middle Eastern history student, losing out on learning such a rich language has deeper implications than you may think.
Synonyms
be unable to take advantage of, fail to benefit from

Origin

Old English losian 'perish, destroy', also 'become unable to find', from los 'loss'.

loose from Middle English:
The medieval word loose is related to Old English lose and loss, and also to the ending -less, signifying ‘without’. The sense ‘immoral, promiscuous’ dates from around 1470 from the original sense ‘free from bonds’. The term a loose cannon sounds as if it should be centuries old, perhaps from the days of warships in Napoleonic battles. In fact, the first recorded uses are from the late 19th century, and the phrase only really gained currency in the 1970s. That said, it does come from the idea that a cannon which has broken loose from its mounting would be a particularly dangerous hazard on any ship, but especially a wooden one. See also fast

Rhymes

abuse, accuse, adieux, amuse, bemuse, billets-doux, blues, booze, bruise, choose, Clews, confuse, contuse, cruise, cruse, Cruz, diffuse, do's, Druze, effuse, enthuse, excuse, fuse (US fuze), Hughes, incuse, interfuse, Mahfouz, mews, misuse, muse, news, ooze, Ouse, perfuse, peruse, rhythm-and-blues, ruse, schmooze, snooze, suffuse, Toulouse, transfuse, trews, use, Vaduz, Veracruz, who's, whose, youse

Definition of lose in US English:

lose

verbluzlo͞oz

[with object]

1Be deprived of or cease to have or retain (something)
失去
I've lost my appetite
我没有胃口。
Linda was very upset about losing her job
琳达因为丢了工作很沮丧。
the company may find itself losing customers to cheaper rivals
公司可能会发现客户被价格更优惠的对手抢走了。
Example sentencesExamples
- But he lost his building society job because he refused to remove his eyebrow piercing.
- Workers had been warned last week that they could lose their jobs after the site lost a major contract.
- It only takes one bad experience for you to lose a potential lifetime customer.
- But you know, the manufacturing jobs disappear, you lose control over your space.
- As for Tom, a clear sign when a forward has lost confidence or the appetite for the fray is when they choose to kick rather than take contact.
- Schools in Bradford's most deprived areas could lose thousands of pounds of funding.
- Customers stood to lose a large proportion of their capital because the value of the 30 companies plunged as the stock market nosedived.
- Schools from deprived areas are still losing a proportion of their pupils, probably those with higher parental support and motivation and hence are even more deprived.
- Players will lose time and money, people will lose jobs, and customers will lose their product.
- I didn't dare make a move in case she got upset and I lost my free transport.
- Speaking from Paris, he said he was relieved at the outcome but still upset at having lost his job.
- Not only are they losing their jobs, they're losing their pensions as well.
- As a result, customers face losing hundreds of pounds if they no longer wish to travel.
- Thousands of customers and suppliers lost money when the group collapsed into administration last year.
- Customers risk losing music legally downloaded from the internet if they are not aware of small-print restrictions on which machines you can play the songs.
- If family support disappears and a patient loses housing or a job or both, what can the clinician do?
- This de-motivates people - as a result they leave the party, they lose enthusiasm, they cease to be active.
- It's been upsetting because we have lost a lot of our local customers, who are our main supporters.
- Businesses and service organizations were losing employees and customers weekly, daily, and eventually hourly.
- Perhaps a third or more of all cropland is losing topsoil faster than new soil is forming, thereby reducing the land's inherent productivity.
Synonyms
be deprived of, suffer the loss of, no longer have, stop having
1. 1.1 Cause (someone) to fail to gain or retain (something)
  使（某人）失去（某物）
  you lost me my appointment at the university
  你让我失去了在伦敦大学的职位。
  Example sentencesExamples
  His plea of insanity lost him his job, and his credibility.
  But it's a game that might lose you just as many regular readers as it gets you.
  Off I went into another manic episode, one that lost me my first job as a social worker, due to my instability.
  He fulfilled his duties conscientiously, but his support for the proclamation of the district as a city lost him his seat in 1950.
  'Being female lost me my job'.
  Spending time in an alcohol detox centre lost me my career with the federal government.
  Synonyms
  be unable to take advantage of, fail to benefit from
2. 1.2 Be deprived of (a close relative or friend) through their death or as a result of the breaking off of a relationship.
  （因死亡、断交）痛失（亲属，朋友）
  she lost her husband in the fire
  她的丈夫在大火中丧生。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Many cats belong to elderly, lonely people, their only companion is their furry feline. To them the loss of their beloved friend is akin to losing a close relative.
  And for my mother, this is a double loss, she has lost her friend, sister and daughter.
  In recent years, he has lost a relative and a friend to the disease.
  For the thousands who had lost relatives or friends, it had the effect of a further slap in the face.
  It seems that every week a friend of mine loses a parent.
  My heartfelt sympathy goes out to all the families who have lost sons and husbands, fathers, brothers.
  Mary, like the other voluntary members of the group, has a personal interest in the fight against cancer losing relatives and friends to the disease.
  It is far more tragic for parents to lose a child from a sudden death; it leaves them with many unsaid things and feelings of regret.
  Charlie survived the war unhurt, although he lost many relatives and close friends.
  And to those who have lost relatives and friends, be assured that you are not forgotten.
  She lost her daughter and husband in an accident and at the time she was pregnant and miscarried.
  A friend of mine recently lost his mother to cancer after she was hospitalized for one year.
  What about the countless German families who lost their sons and husbands during the conflict?
  Grief and pride bind the families who lost their sons, fathers, brothers, or husbands to war.
  The death of any relative is devastating but to lose three grandchildren in tragic circumstances is more than most of us could bear.
  Too many of us lose our mothers, sisters, daughters and friends to this disease.
  Both my parents lost relatives very dear to them, and the wider circle of relations has suffered some tough times too.
  Many of my friends, and my wife, lost grandparents during their twenties too.
  It was so horrible not only losing my father, but losing my closest friend too!
  The pair were both touched by the work of the specialist ward when they lost children to premature deaths.
3. 1.3 (of a pregnant woman) miscarry (a baby) or suffer the death of (a baby) during childbirth.
  （孕妇）流产；产下死婴
  Example sentencesExamples
  She became convinced she was losing her baby and insisted her husband take her to hospital.
  These problems increase their risk of not being able to get pregnant, losing a baby, or having a baby too early.
  I hope she doesn't lose the baby and die herself in the process.
  At home she rebelled, ran away, did drugs, slept around, got pregnant and lost the baby.
  The woman was three months pregnant and lost her baby as a result of the collision.
  While some women may want to become pregnant fairly soon after losing a baby, the decision to have another baby is not an easy one and must be taken only when both partners feel it is right.
  She has reportedly been put under round-the-clock medical care over fears she could lose her unborn baby..
  Doctors are gravely concerned that she could lose her baby and the family has asked to be left in peace to cope with the ordeal.
  But more than anything else she felt a deep sadness for the babies she had lost.
  Jane felt particular empathy for couples who had problem pregnancies or who lost their baby.
  However, Fiona fell pregnant and now wants to get through these nine months, knowing she could lose her baby.
  She did lose her third baby however, although I have no idea if this had any connection with smoking.
  Other women said they were attacked when pregnant and claim they lost their babies.
  She was taken to hospital losing blood and was told by doctors she had been five months pregnant but had lost her baby.
4. 1.4be lost Be destroyed or killed, especially through accident or as a result of military action.
  （尤指事故、军事行动中）遇难，牺牲
  a fishing disaster in which 19 local men were lost
  一次导致129名当地男子死亡的渔难。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The ship had 5 officers and 33 men on board when sunk, of whom 2 officers and 24 men were lost.
  Forty additional men were lost either from gunfire or tragic mishap.
  Twelve men were lost and the ship abandoned; she later sank while under tow in the South Atlantic.
  Her entire ship's company of 30 men were lost.
  While attempting rescue a small boat manned by local men capsized and four men were lost.
  Subsequently it became known that a second lifeboat and her crew were lost in the heroic attempt to relieve the same vessel.
5. 1.5 Decrease in (body weight); undergo a reduction of (a specified amount of weight)
  减轻（体重）；减少（重量）
  she couldn't eat and began to lose weight
  她无法进食，体重开始下降。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I lost some weight last year in an effort to calm down my increasingly regular heartburn.
  Weight management is a complex issue, so that the amount of weight lost will vary for each individual.
  Subsequent programmes should be based on how much weight has been lost initially.
  However, having lost some weight I am still not a size 10 and the dress is too tight.
  To lose body weight, essentially you have to burn more calories than you take in.
  She had tried other slimming classes but was unsuccessful as any weight she lost she put back on again quickly.
  I've not lost the amount of weight I hoped but I have lost some and I'm feeling a lot better for it.
  The team which loses the most weight combined is the winner that week.
  They also showed trends toward losing lesser amounts of body weight.
  If someone loses much more weight, it could be a cause for concern.
  Everyone is weighed each week and the slimmer who loses the most weight each week is praised and earns the title of ‘Slimmer of the Week’.
  And that motivation, rather than the diet, might explain whatever weight they lose.
  That helped him tone up, lose a little more weight, and feel even better.
  But, remember, the amount of weight you lose is entirely at your own discretion and you can join in or drop out of the campaign at any time.
  It is imperative that he loses substantial amount of weight.
  Become concerned if the patient begins to lose more weight than 6 pounds in 6 months.
  He weighs her to make sure she is losing the amount of weight he has demanded.
  They should not generally be advised to lose any more weight, but I would suggest they work on their shape.
  Now fully recovered, she wanted to reclaim her body and lose some of the weight she had gained as a result of all the medication.
  If you really need a number, a healthy amount of weight to lose is about one pound per week.
6. 1.6 (of a watch or clock) become slow by (a specified amount of time)
  （钟表）变慢（若干时间）
  this clock will neither gain nor lose a second
  这个钟走时丝毫不差。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They gradually fell out of step, with one clock losing 5 seconds a day in relation to the other.
  For example: If your watch loses 5 seconds while being worn during the day, try to find a position in which the watch gains about 5 seconds overnight.
  On most days, the watch loses about 0.5 seconds.
  Unfortunately the watch loses 11 seconds a day.
  It also depends on the constancy of its rate; meaning, that a watch gains or loses the exact same amount of time each day.
7. 1.7lose itinformal Lose control of one's temper or emotions.
  〈非正式〉情绪失控
  in the end I completely lost it—I was screaming at them
  最后我实在控制不了情绪，冲着他们大叫了起来。
  Example sentencesExamples
  As they watched us, mainlanders would shake their heads and wonder whether we had lost it completely.
  The last thing she remembered before losing it completely was moving away from town.
  If he calls her Tracey I will lose it completely and burst out laughing.
  I don't know what triggered it this time around, or what it is that keeps holding me back from losing it completely.
  This scene is particularly important since in the very act of proving his manhood, the hero loses it completely.
  There is a moment in the book when Patrick completely loses it.
  I like that scene where Eva completely loses it and throws Kevin across the room and breaks his arm.
  I completely lost it and shouted and screamed at him about how selfish he is.
  Sadly, Hunter loses it completely in the next paragraph.
  This was it, for me - the moment that I lost it and started crying uncontrollably.
  Josie rose to me, to keep me from losing it completely, but she was too slow.
  Since the illness, well in the last few weeks really, he's lost it over trivial stupid things.
  I think it was at this time that I lost it, because I did not realise a crime was taking place.
  He completely loses it, and lays his head down on the table, enjoying the moment.
  He could have lost it completely and run off screaming into the night, with no one at all on his tail.
  I'm told Roseanna has lost it completely and has taken to sticking pins into wax images of her old pal Nicola.
  Any suggestions that she was losing it are hereby completely rescinded.
  If I see something that slightly resembles a spider, I'll freak out and lose it right on the spot.
  Synonyms
  become very angry, fly into a rage, explode, blow up, erupt, lose control, go berserk, breathe fire, begin to rant and rave, flare up, boil over
2Become unable to find (something or someone)
丢失
I've lost the car keys
我把汽车钥匙弄丢了。
Example sentencesExamples
- It's been lost, of course, in all the wanderings and dissolutions, which is sad.
- The customer had lost his invoice. It took him a minute to pull up the information.
- We lost the car keys before and I used the mini torch to help me find them again.
- They are reminded of what they have been missing, what has been long lost or forgotten.
- Customers, who lose their key, are asked to choose the closest model from the hundreds of samples.
- Second is the fact that he is a most forgetful man and loses his all the time.
- Often the end customer loses the cargo once it leaves rail-carrier control, even though it is on his own sideline in the company yard.
- Forget one suitcase (which was found), imagine losing everything.
Synonyms
mislay, misplace, be unable to find
1. 2.1 Cease or become unable to follow (the right route)
  迷路
  the clouds came down and we lost the path
  云幕渐渐低垂，我们迷路了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  As for me, well my love for New York runs so deep that I would gladly have lost myself in the city and stayed forever!
  To add to their difficulties, when they were far advanced among the hills, their guide lost the road, and was never able to regain it.
  So, arriving ahead of time, I lose myself for 10 minutes down a path really called Dunwoman's Lane.
  For several days we lost ourselves in the labyrinth of the old centre.
  Eventually emerging onto St James's Road, we lost the path.
  Heather pushed her way through a dense growth of rhododendrons; she had completely lost the path now.
  But at Reelsville they lost the Road. He wrote, "Not a track was to be seen on the smooth green turf beneath the tall, shady oak trees."
  I began to turn away, back towards the forest that I was sure to lose myself in, but he called out in urgency.
  Synonyms
  stray from, wander from, depart from, go astray from, fail to keep to, fail to keep in sight
2. 2.2 Evade or shake off (a pursuer)
  甩掉，摆脱（追踪者）
  he came after me waving his revolver, but I easily lost him
  他在后面挥动着左轮手枪跟着我，但我轻易地甩掉了他。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He realised now that he would never lose such a determined pursuer in these corridors.
  Once there, the gunman hoped to lose his pursuers in the maze of large buildings.
  He ducked and dodged around the buildings, trying to lose his pursuers but they managed to stay on his tail.
  He ducks into an alleyway in an attempt to lose his pursuers, but before he can scurry over a low wall, they catch up.
  There were no more trees with which to lose his pursuers, only a stretch of stone, snow dunes, and mountainside.
  Synonyms
  escape from, evade, elude, dodge, avoid, give someone the slip, shake off, throw off, throw off the scent, duck, get rid of
3. 2.3North American informal Get rid of (an undesirable person or thing)
  〈北美，非正式〉除掉，干掉（不喜欢的人或物）
  lose that creep!
  干掉那讨厌的家伙。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Oh, thank God, we get to lose that awful two-tone weave!
  You need to lose that creep before he pressures you into more things you don't want to do.
  They need to lose that awful voiceover.
4. 2.4informal Cause (someone) to be unable to follow an argument or explanation.
  〈非正式〉使弄不懂
  sorry, Tim, you've lost me there
  蒂姆，很抱歉，你把我弄糊涂了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I have to admit he lost me there.
  He lost me there when he went into politician speak.
  This is where he loses me, and it's where the traditionalist argument always loses me.
  This guy is losing me with his explanation of Mrs. Jones though.
5. 2.5lose oneself in/be lost in Be or become deeply absorbed in (something)
  沉湎于；专注于
  he had been lost in thought
  他陷入了沉思。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This album is a dark, tempestuous but highly inviting place that you could quite easily lose yourself in, and there's a real chance that you won't want to return.
  A really quiet and disciplined audience lost themselves in symphonies of Schubert and Mozart.
  A lone tourist baked in the sun as he lost himself in what must have been an enthralling book.
  The deep notes put forth by the pseudo-lute were something you could lose yourself in.
  With a book in hand, I'd dive joyfully into the world being created, absorbing every word into my skin, losing myself in the pages.
  I sat on my bed for hours on end, with my albums and my pop magazines, and lost myself in music.
  Later that afternoon, I located the book on the library shelves upstairs, and I lost myself in re-reading the novel.
  I can go on raving about this film but I just prefer to let you guys watch it and lose yourself in one of the most immersive cinema experiences ever.
  He soon lost himself in the dream world of cinema.
  If there was ever an album worth losing yourself in, this is it.
  If you've ever lost yourself in a book, a film or a piece of music, if you've ever travelled abroad on your own, you'll know about that moment of hesitation when you return to find your old life, seemingly unchanged, waiting to engulf you.
  But let me tell you, gardening really is one of those activities you can lose yourself in, you don't think of anything but what you're doing.
  I lost myself in the wonderful food and conversation.
  The things that we used to romanticize and use as an escape have come back with a hard edge, as forces to be reckoned with rather than as dreams to lose ourselves in.
  He says, ‘Once we have lost ourselves in the world the puppets create, we accept the message without even realising that we are learning.’
  Athletics was my refuge, something I could lose myself in.
  When you go to one of those stories, part of what you are doing is trying to lose yourself in something and then you go home and you think about it.
  I would shirk my daily responsibilities, lay in front of the TV for hours, smoking and losing myself in what was on.
  To be honest I wanted something that would be pleasurable, that would fill up my time, that I could lose myself in.
  He felt as if he'd been doused in a bucket of cold water suddenly, so profound was the shock of being dragged forcibly out of the memory he had lost himself in.
  Synonyms
  absorb, engross, occupy, engage, involve, engulf, bury
3Fail to win (a game or contest)
输掉；未赢得（游戏，竞赛）
no object they lost by one vote
他们以一票之差败北。
the Bears lost the final game of the series
Example sentencesExamples
- They failed to capitalize and ended up losing the game 6-3, coming home with the bronze medal.
- They won all four league games and lost the final to West Indies in the Triangular in Zimbabwe.
- It still is a surprise when the country that invented basketball loses an international game.
- He lost in the match of the season to the current league champions and then lost a tight game away to an improving Aston Villa side.
- They failed to reach the knock out stages after narrowly losing the group games.
- It was a brave decision, but the correct one as neither side deserved to lose this particular game.
- They had been the champions, now they lost the fifth game of the first round at home.
- Neither side deserved to lose this game but with just three minutes left on the clock Ballyhar struck for the winner.
- England have defaulted a match in this tournament, but are yet to lose a game on the field.
- New Jersey took a 21-point lead into the final period of that contest yet lost the game.
- Something had to give in the Premiership game of the day when undefeated Aberdeen took on a Melrose team who have gone four games without losing a match.
- The bottom line is that Canada hates to lose a hockey game.
- Both sides, having lost their opening games to Pakistan, are without a point in the tournament.
- Remember last year Tour lost the same game and went on to a county final success later in the year.
- That said however neither side deserved to lose a game that was played under the most appalling conditions.
- After the election, he fought to keep it in the same spot, failed, and lost the race.
- Games between these sides have always been close encounters and so this game proved with neither side deserving to lose the game.
- The Cork side have lost all four games to date, so on all known form this should result in a Naas victory.
- It was a pity that either side had to lose this game, as both contributed so much to a wonderful evening's entertainment.
- Neither side deserved to lose a game that see-sawed back and forth for the whole hour-plus.
Synonyms
be defeated, be beaten, suffer defeat, be the loser, be conquered, be vanquished, be trounced, be worsted, be bested by, get the worst, have the worst, come off second-best, lose out, fail, come to grief, meet one's waterloo
1. 3.1 Cause (someone) to fail to win (a game or contest)
  使（某人）失去（某物）
  that shot lost him the championship
  那一枪使他与冠军无缘。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I love Brady because he never misses a week and he rarely does anything to lose you games.
  I really fear making a mistake or a wrong decision that costs us points or loses us games.
  Then you realise that he's not making mistakes playing a game in which a quarterback can more easily lose you a game than win it.
  You have to realize that you missing one shot or turning the ball over one time is not going to lose you a game.
  His antics lost him the first game, for which he didn't arrive, and the second, which he threw away.
  I was just a pawn in his game, he'd have moved on and thrown me away when I lost him his game.
  If your opponent has already captured three of your yellow ghosts then he's in a bit of trouble as any capture he makes runs the risk of losing him the game.
  That was enough to lose him that world championship he desired.
  Synonyms
  be defeated by, be beaten by, be conquered by, be vanquished by, be trounced by, be worsted by, be bested by, be beaten into second place by
4Earn less (money) than one is spending or has spent.
入不敷出，亏损
the paper is losing $500,000 a month
这家报纸每月亏损150万英镑。
no object he lost heavily on box-office flops
票房收入走低使他损失惨重。
Example sentencesExamples
- He dealt with a number of restituted properties, but found he was losing money rather than profiting.
- That means that the government would lose money with the current tax structure.
- They were told that the paper was losing money and there were no other interested buyers.
- Two of the seven ready meals factories were losing money.
- The society also operates a compensation scheme so clients will not lose money if funds are not recovered.
- This has resulted in the nation losing a lot money as funds continue being spent on the same projects and in this way progress is retarded.
- None of those networks wanted to show the news because it's expensive, they lose money on it.
- The fund only loses money when the proposed deal is not completed for any reason.
- In fact, many of us who export are already losing money, but hoping that the dollar will drop so that our businesses will survive.
- Although the company claims it was not losing money, profit levels were thought to have been negligible.
- This column has always argued that economic freedom and the opportunity to make, spend and lose money is central to a creative society.
- In terms of real money, Americans are losing income faster than at any time since the Great Depression.
- On the ownership side of it, I'm the one who has to control spending, especially if you're losing money.
- These investors have been badly hit by the cutback in policy values and have lost substantial sums of money.
- A similar number of posts were cut in 2003 when the company, losing money heavily at the time, announced it was off-shoring some operations to India.
- To the best of my knowledge it still loses money so why spend even more money breaking the company up even further.
- The airlines have taken away all the frills because they claim to be losing huge sums of money.
- Our competitors will raise their prices because they're losing money.
- Despite a reported rise in advertising revenue, the paper continued to lose money.
- For the race promoter, every single event is a gamble between losing money, earning money, or just breaking even.
5Waste or fail to take advantage of (time or an opportunity)
未能赶上；错过（时间，机会）
they lost every chance to score in the first inning
he lost no time in attacking his opponent's tax proposals
Example sentencesExamples
- A great opportunity has been lost which would have rid our game of cynical fouling.
- Many such opportunities would be lost if the market for generic phonenames did not exist.
- Just when it seemed we were getting the go ahead, it looks like this opportunity might be lost.
- For without it, the developing world and the millions in it who live in extreme poverty will lose the best chance they have of improving their lot in life.
- Outside the project this investment opportunity may well be lost.
- It is certainly an issue I raised at the time, but time has passed and that opportunity has been lost.
- Both chances have been lost - the first in part, the second it seems conclusively.
- But, if we continue to bury our heads in the sand then these opportunities will be lost.
- If the idea of buying a sugar company scared the growers, losing such an opportunity was worse.
- He repeated that it was time all worked together to ensure that we did not lose such a real opportunity for the West of Ireland.
- Out in the hallway Tim cursed silently as the gunfire sounded, knowing that their slim advantage had just been lost.
- But trains would have to reverse on departure from both, so any advantage would be completely lost.
- Unfortunately, she was gone in a blink of an eye and the opportunity to speak was lost.
- An opportunity will be lost, and proper democracy will remain just that bit further out of reach.
- It would be a great shame for this opportunity to be lost, mostly on the grounds of increased traffic.
- The opportunity that was lost was the opportunity to challenge the Local Plan.
- Tying up an opponent is usually good, but it also ties up one of yours which can lose a valuable scoring opportunity.
- Was I saying that I needed to move faster, or else I would lose all of my chances?
- That opportunity has been forever lost, to the relief of those who would now live under its flight path.
- Some might operate on or near the surface, losing much of their advantage.
Synonyms
neglect, waste, squander, fail to grasp, fail to take, fail to take advantage of, let pass, miss, forfeit, give up, ignore, disregard

Usage

See loose

Phrases

have nothing to lose

Be in a situation that is so bad that even if an action or undertaking is unsuccessful, it cannot make it any worse.
已然身陷绝境，何须计较得失？
Example sentencesExamples
- As someone who's faced more than her share of hardships lately, she should know a thing or two about having nothing to lose by taking a chance.
- We've been boxed into a corner and have nothing to lose.
- ‘We have nothing to lose and everything to gain from the game,’ he said.
- ‘When I'm abroad I feel I have nothing to lose and everything to gain,’ he says.
- Nobody expects us to win and so we have nothing to lose.
- A year ago she beat players because she adopted a youthful attitude of having nothing to lose.
- Sentenced to die, a convicted contract killer has nothing to lose when he snatches a policeman's pistol.
- If not, I have nothing to lose by telling you the truth.
- You have nothing to lose but stand to gain peace of mind!
- We have nothing to lose, because we had nothing to start with.

lose heart

Become discouraged.
灰心，气馁
Example sentencesExamples
- The activists are said to have lost heart, and the floating voters - unhappy at progress in the health service and education - will not bother to walk to the polling booth.
- By then the protesters appeared to have lost heart and left the lecture hall looking disconsolate as the audience gave Mr Jones a round of applause.
- It really is like a war zone there and we are losing heart.
- This is the one hurdle at which most listeners coming in hope, tend to falter and often lose heart and turn away.
- Even the most dedicated health professional, faced with continuing requests to do more with less, eventually loses heart and looks for employment in the private sector or outside the industry.
- However discouraging the prospect, he never lost heart.
- There is no reason for him to lose heart because such things have happened in the past.
- What should have happened was the next week they should have marched again, but after that march people really lost heart.
- He finds he is not fit physically for the struggle, and he loses heart and gives up.
- Professional athletes have found that dogged persistence, stamina and endurance - and never giving up, letting up, or losing heart is one of the main keys to becoming a great professional athlete.
Synonyms
be despondent, lose heart, give up hope, become dispirited, become dejected, despond

lose height

(of an aircraft) descend to a lower level in flight.
（飞机）降低飞行高度
Example sentencesExamples
- It was losing height and its engine started to splutter and finally, after catching again, died away.
- This would cause the airplane to lose height rapidly at about 3000 feet per minute.
- The plane lost height very quickly with three stops on the way down.
- Half an hour later the airplane lost height again and the captain was on the loudspeakers once more: ‘This is your captain speaking.’
- Paul made a pass, then circled back round for his landing, as the revs dropped we lost height then glided in for a smooth landing.
- Just one second later, 44 seconds before the collision, the Swiss air traffic controller instructed the Tupolev to lose height as quickly as possible, contrary to the automatic warning he had just received.
- It was really getting a lot darker now so I cut back to tickover and began to lose height to come in to land.
- Despite it being a biplane, I really did need very low power settings and improbably high speeds to make it lose height.
- You begin to lose height very quickly and it is important to take care on this descent.
- If you ease off the power, the plane loses height quite quickly.

lose one's mind (or one's marbles)

informal Go insane.
〈非正式〉精神失常
Example sentencesExamples
- She looked at me as if I had lost my mind, then she looked out the window.
- So then I went to Nantucket and lost my mind for a minute.
- I pretty much lost my mind between March and September.
- But in his circles all neurological problems were known as having lost one's marbles.
- A long time ago he began to lose his mind and he started imagining things that are not real.
- I lost my mind and I ran back home, trying to explain it to my mom.
- Tragically, his boat was later found adrift, no sign of him on board, and in a filthy cabin were the insane diary entries of one who had clearly lost his mind.
- Sometimes the cause is not very clear and we think that we have lost our mind, that we are crazy.
- She laughed, her eyes weren't focused and she seemed to have lost her mind and gone insane.
- Yes, I've probably lost my mind, but if that's true, I don't really care.
Synonyms
become insane, lose one's reason, lose one's mind, take leave of one's senses, go off one's head, go crazy

lose sleep

usually with negativeWorry about something.
担心，忧虑
no one is losing any sleep over what he thinks of us
没人在意他怎样看我们。
Example sentencesExamples
- He lost sleep trying to find the right tone, but shedding the classical acting style helped.
- It's a brave move and I must admit I have lost sleep over it.
- The Pope, who aides say is losing sleep over the possibility of war, celebrated a Mass that began with a stiff wind blowing in from Siberia over the flat steppes and ended in sunshine.
- True, from time to time, feelings will be hurt in these discussions, but why lose sleep worrying about the self-esteem problems of politicians?
- But people now losing sleep over looming crime should control the urge to adopt desperate devices, which may also cause them to lose friends.
- I struggled with this and even lost sleep over it.
- The worst thing that the civilised world lost sleep over was the impending Millennium.
- When she was five, I lost sleep over sending her to kindergarten.
- It is not something I lose sleep worrying about.
- The owner says he has avoided layoffs, but he's losing sleep.
Synonyms
fret, be worried, be concerned, be anxious, agonize, brood, dwell on, panic, get in a panic, lose sleep, get worked up, get in a fluster, get overwrought, be on tenterhooks

lose one's (or the) way

1Become lost; fail to reach one's destination.
迷路
Example sentencesExamples
- Gardaí believe he may have become disorientated in the dark and lost his way before straying into a field and falling into a slurry pit.
- Thomas ran and ran, and was able to escape from the big dog; but, by that time he had lost his way.
- Pushing through the trees and undergrowth was definitely not fun, and there were several panicky parts where I was sure that we had lost our way, but now, finally, we were clear of that.
- Being unable to read sometimes slowed me down when I lost my way on the road and kept me from being all I could be, but it no longer saddened me.
- Lost in thought, Leon didn't realize that he had lost his way, his horse having wandered away from the group.
- The fog causes Alec to lose his way, and the moonlight comes out when he returns to Tess sleeping.
- When he tried he would lose his way and not only couldn't he find the water, he couldn't find his way back to the barn.
- I wasn't the only one who lost the way either so just be sure to keep your wits about you.
- You cannot really lose the way since you only need stay on the top of the ridge and go up.
- On the way to Aisha, a true indigenous Berber woman, we managed to lose the way many times.
1. 1.1No longer have a clear idea of one's purpose or motivation in an activity or business.
  〈喻〉（办事或经营中）不再有明确目标（或动力）；迷失方向
  the company has lost its way and should pull out of general insurance
  公司已经迷失了经营方向，应该撤出常规保险业务。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The difficult thing is doing what I do, getting hold of players who have lost their way and making them into good ones.
  Acres of land had been left wasting, livestock and citrus farming had lost their way and the workers had been retrained in professional and academic disciplines, he said.
  His lectures were extremely clear and well-organized; he never lost his way in complicated arguments.
  ‘It is clear that the Government have lost their way on law and order,’ he writes.
  It is this consent and the belief in that promise which is wavering as fighting spreads - and along with it the idea that they are losing their way and have no clear idea how to reassert themselves.
  They began as Keynesian demand management adherents but lost their way during the economic crisis of the 1970's to finish up mild monetarists.
  But to me, it says a lot more about how newspaper editors - and not readers - have lost their way.
  As the years have gone by, I have come to believe that when we lose that spark of innocence, we begin to wander like sheep and inevitably lose our way.
  France, eventually unable to withstand the English pressure once the home side had started to put their game together, lost their way in the final quarter.
  I was making the point that we had really lost our way and lost the support of a lot of folks.

you can't lose

Used to express the conviction that someone must inevitably profit from an action or undertaking.
包赚，包你得益
we're offering them for only $5.00—you can't lose!
我们仅以2.5英镑的价格提供商品，包你得益！
Example sentencesExamples
- He convinces you if you play the schemes right, you can't lose.
- In other words, you can't lose, and you can only gain.
- You should bet the table limit, because you can't lose.
- As long as you follow this rule, you can't lose!
- For the most part, keep being a good friend and see what develops; Even if you don't become boyfriend / girlfriend, you'll have a great guy pal - either way, you can't lose!
- Go on, you can't lose and you just might acquire the confidence to make an outstanding success at your home business or other challenging venture!
- Do what you love with people you care about, and you can't lose.
- Forget the nervous breakdown Helen, take my advice and go for it girl - you can't lose.
- Go for it - you can't lose.
- Here we will look at another Craps betting option in which, for one roll anyway, you can't lose!

Phrasal Verbs

lose out

1Be deprived of an opportunity to do or obtain something; be disadvantaged.
未能得到；错过；未能赶上
youngsters who were losing out on regular schooling
错过接受正规教育机会的年轻人。
Example sentencesExamples
- Understandably, with farmers facing loss of income through losing out on premiums and sale of lambs, the scheme has evoked a good deal of anger among the sheep farming community.
- Many of these farmers did not have an opportunity to increase numbers and as a result, are losing out on any compensation.
- ‘Without milk and eggs, you are losing out on nutrients,’ she says.
- The recent Easter celebrations, which according to the Bulgarian tradition include eating lamb, were a little overshadowed by news that the country is losing out on lamb exports.
- That's a huge dent in our finances and obviously if we have to remain closed, we're losing out on a massive chunk of our income at the same time.
- Owners of shops, hotels and business establishments on this street, felt they were losing out on genuine customers who couldn't find space for their vehicles.
- As a Middle Eastern history student, losing out on learning such a rich language has deeper implications than you may think.
- It is a huge problem because prisoners who are taking drugs do not take part in the various programmes available to them in the jail and are losing out on that chance.
- They also created fascinating projects that showed how to save cement and other construction materials, without losing out on quality or strength of the structure.
- It also argues that the public is now losing out on their return for investment as it is being taken away from them by the government.
Synonyms
be unable to take advantage of, fail to benefit from
1. 1.1Be beaten in competition or replaced by.
  （在竞争中）失败；（被）取代
  they were disappointed at losing out to Chicago in the playoffs
  他们因为在半决赛中输给柏林队而沮丧不已。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In a competitive market, companies that miss the boat on sensible energy efficiency investments will lose out to their more forward-looking competitors.
  If your business is not appearing on these search engines then you are losing out to your competitors that are looking for what you do.
  In a round robin competition they lost out by just one ace at the Semi-final stage.
  Publishers of medical journals should feel encouraged to make the content of their journals available as full text to avoid losing out to their competitors.
  Meanwhile the Junior Girls suffered a similar fate in their competition losing out also to the eventual winners in the semi-final, this time to a golden goal in extra time.
  ‘But the fear of losing out in this new competition exists on both sides,’ he declared.
  That's very similar to the arguments made by labor and farm groups in the U.S. concerned about losing out to competitors.
  Public sector banks will lose out to competition
  If supervisors fail to put data on costs, sales, and revenue to good use, their companies will lose out to competitors who do.
  I was a little disappointed to see them lose out to NeXT.

Origin

Old English losian ‘perish, destroy’, also ‘become unable to find’, from los ‘loss’.

单词	lose
释义	Definition of lose in English: lose verblost luːzluz [with object] 1Be deprived of or cease to have or retain (something) 失去 I've lost my appetite 我没有胃口。 Linda was very upset about losing her job 琳达因为丢了工作很沮丧。 the company may find itself losing customers to cheaper rivals 公司可能会发现客户被价格更优惠的对手抢走了。 Example sentencesExamples Schools from deprived areas are still losing a proportion of their pupils, probably those with higher parental support and motivation and hence are even more deprived. Speaking from Paris, he said he was relieved at the outcome but still upset at having lost his job. But he lost his building society job because he refused to remove his eyebrow piercing. Schools in Bradford's most deprived areas could lose thousands of pounds of funding. If family support disappears and a patient loses housing or a job or both, what can the clinician do? I didn't dare make a move in case she got upset and I lost my free transport. Thousands of customers and suppliers lost money when the group collapsed into administration last year. It's been upsetting because we have lost a lot of our local customers, who are our main supporters. Players will lose time and money, people will lose jobs, and customers will lose their product. Businesses and service organizations were losing employees and customers weekly, daily, and eventually hourly. It only takes one bad experience for you to lose a potential lifetime customer. Workers had been warned last week that they could lose their jobs after the site lost a major contract. But you know, the manufacturing jobs disappear, you lose control over your space. As a result, customers face losing hundreds of pounds if they no longer wish to travel. Perhaps a third or more of all cropland is losing topsoil faster than new soil is forming, thereby reducing the land's inherent productivity. Customers stood to lose a large proportion of their capital because the value of the 30 companies plunged as the stock market nosedived. As for Tom, a clear sign when a forward has lost confidence or the appetite for the fray is when they choose to kick rather than take contact. Not only are they losing their jobs, they're losing their pensions as well. This de-motivates people - as a result they leave the party, they lose enthusiasm, they cease to be active. Customers risk losing music legally downloaded from the internet if they are not aware of small-print restrictions on which machines you can play the songs. Synonyms be deprived of, suffer the loss of, no longer have, stop having 1.1with two objects Cause (someone) to fail to gain or retain (something) 使（某人）失去（某物） you lost me my appointment at London University 你让我失去了在伦敦大学的职位。 Example sentencesExamples But it's a game that might lose you just as many regular readers as it gets you. Off I went into another manic episode, one that lost me my first job as a social worker, due to my instability. Spending time in an alcohol detox centre lost me my career with the federal government. He fulfilled his duties conscientiously, but his support for the proclamation of the district as a city lost him his seat in 1950. 'Being female lost me my job'. His plea of insanity lost him his job, and his credibility. Synonyms be unable to take advantage of, fail to benefit from 1.2 Be deprived of (a relative or friend) through their death. she lost her husband in the fire 她的丈夫在大火中丧生。 Example sentencesExamples Charlie survived the war unhurt, although he lost many relatives and close friends. Many cats belong to elderly, lonely people, their only companion is their furry feline. To them the loss of their beloved friend is akin to losing a close relative. It is far more tragic for parents to lose a child from a sudden death; it leaves them with many unsaid things and feelings of regret. What about the countless German families who lost their sons and husbands during the conflict? Mary, like the other voluntary members of the group, has a personal interest in the fight against cancer losing relatives and friends to the disease. For the thousands who had lost relatives or friends, it had the effect of a further slap in the face. A friend of mine recently lost his mother to cancer after she was hospitalized for one year. In recent years, he has lost a relative and a friend to the disease. The death of any relative is devastating but to lose three grandchildren in tragic circumstances is more than most of us could bear. Too many of us lose our mothers, sisters, daughters and friends to this disease. It was so horrible not only losing my father, but losing my closest friend too! My heartfelt sympathy goes out to all the families who have lost sons and husbands, fathers, brothers. And for my mother, this is a double loss, she has lost her friend, sister and daughter. Grief and pride bind the families who lost their sons, fathers, brothers, or husbands to war. Many of my friends, and my wife, lost grandparents during their twenties too. Both my parents lost relatives very dear to them, and the wider circle of relations has suffered some tough times too. And to those who have lost relatives and friends, be assured that you are not forgotten. It seems that every week a friend of mine loses a parent. She lost her daughter and husband in an accident and at the time she was pregnant and miscarried. The pair were both touched by the work of the specialist ward when they lost children to premature deaths. 1.3 (of a pregnant woman) miscarry (a baby) or suffer the death of (a baby) during childbirth. （孕妇）流产；产下死婴 am I going to lose the baby? Example sentencesExamples She became convinced she was losing her baby and insisted her husband take her to hospital. At home she rebelled, ran away, did drugs, slept around, got pregnant and lost the baby. But more than anything else she felt a deep sadness for the babies she had lost. I hope she doesn't lose the baby and die herself in the process. Jane felt particular empathy for couples who had problem pregnancies or who lost their baby. These problems increase their risk of not being able to get pregnant, losing a baby, or having a baby too early. Doctors are gravely concerned that she could lose her baby and the family has asked to be left in peace to cope with the ordeal. She did lose her third baby however, although I have no idea if this had any connection with smoking. However, Fiona fell pregnant and now wants to get through these nine months, knowing she could lose her baby. Other women said they were attacked when pregnant and claim they lost their babies. She has reportedly been put under round-the-clock medical care over fears she could lose her unborn baby.. The woman was three months pregnant and lost her baby as a result of the collision. She was taken to hospital losing blood and was told by doctors she had been five months pregnant but had lost her baby. While some women may want to become pregnant fairly soon after losing a baby, the decision to have another baby is not an easy one and must be taken only when both partners feel it is right. 1.4be lost Be destroyed or killed, especially as a result of an accident or military action. （尤指事故、军事行动中）遇难，牺牲 a fishing disaster in which 129 men were lost 一次导致129名当地男子死亡的渔难。 Example sentencesExamples Subsequently it became known that a second lifeboat and her crew were lost in the heroic attempt to relieve the same vessel. Forty additional men were lost either from gunfire or tragic mishap. Her entire ship's company of 30 men were lost. Twelve men were lost and the ship abandoned; she later sank while under tow in the South Atlantic. While attempting rescue a small boat manned by local men capsized and four men were lost. The ship had 5 officers and 33 men on board when sunk, of whom 2 officers and 24 men were lost. 1.5 Decrease in (body weight); undergo a reduction of (a specified amount of weight) 减轻（体重）；减少（重量） she couldn't eat and began to lose weight 她无法进食，体重开始下降。 Example sentencesExamples The team which loses the most weight combined is the winner that week. It is imperative that he loses substantial amount of weight. Everyone is weighed each week and the slimmer who loses the most weight each week is praised and earns the title of ‘Slimmer of the Week’. She had tried other slimming classes but was unsuccessful as any weight she lost she put back on again quickly. Become concerned if the patient begins to lose more weight than 6 pounds in 6 months. However, having lost some weight I am still not a size 10 and the dress is too tight. If someone loses much more weight, it could be a cause for concern. Subsequent programmes should be based on how much weight has been lost initially. They also showed trends toward losing lesser amounts of body weight. To lose body weight, essentially you have to burn more calories than you take in. I've not lost the amount of weight I hoped but I have lost some and I'm feeling a lot better for it. And that motivation, rather than the diet, might explain whatever weight they lose. They should not generally be advised to lose any more weight, but I would suggest they work on their shape. If you really need a number, a healthy amount of weight to lose is about one pound per week. Now fully recovered, she wanted to reclaim her body and lose some of the weight she had gained as a result of all the medication. But, remember, the amount of weight you lose is entirely at your own discretion and you can join in or drop out of the campaign at any time. That helped him tone up, lose a little more weight, and feel even better. I lost some weight last year in an effort to calm down my increasingly regular heartburn. Weight management is a complex issue, so that the amount of weight lost will vary for each individual. He weighs her to make sure she is losing the amount of weight he has demanded. 1.6 (of a watch or clock) become slow by (a specified amount of time) （钟表）变慢（若干时间） this clock will neither gain nor lose a second 这个钟走时丝毫不差。 Example sentencesExamples For example: If your watch loses 5 seconds while being worn during the day, try to find a position in which the watch gains about 5 seconds overnight. On most days, the watch loses about 0.5 seconds. They gradually fell out of step, with one clock losing 5 seconds a day in relation to the other. It also depends on the constancy of its rate; meaning, that a watch gains or loses the exact same amount of time each day. Unfortunately the watch loses 11 seconds a day. 1.7lose itinformal Become unable to control one's temper or emotions. 〈非正式〉情绪失控 I completely lost it—I was screaming at them 最后我实在控制不了情绪，冲着他们大叫了起来。 Example sentencesExamples If I see something that slightly resembles a spider, I'll freak out and lose it right on the spot. I'm told Roseanna has lost it completely and has taken to sticking pins into wax images of her old pal Nicola. As they watched us, mainlanders would shake their heads and wonder whether we had lost it completely. This scene is particularly important since in the very act of proving his manhood, the hero loses it completely. Since the illness, well in the last few weeks really, he's lost it over trivial stupid things. There is a moment in the book when Patrick completely loses it. If he calls her Tracey I will lose it completely and burst out laughing. Sadly, Hunter loses it completely in the next paragraph. This was it, for me - the moment that I lost it and started crying uncontrollably. Any suggestions that she was losing it are hereby completely rescinded. I think it was at this time that I lost it, because I did not realise a crime was taking place. I completely lost it and shouted and screamed at him about how selfish he is. He could have lost it completely and run off screaming into the night, with no one at all on his tail. I don't know what triggered it this time around, or what it is that keeps holding me back from losing it completely. Josie rose to me, to keep me from losing it completely, but she was too slow. The last thing she remembered before losing it completely was moving away from town. I like that scene where Eva completely loses it and throws Kevin across the room and breaks his arm. He completely loses it, and lays his head down on the table, enjoying the moment. Synonyms become very angry, fly into a rage, explode, blow up, erupt, lose control, go berserk, breathe fire, begin to rant and rave, flare up, boil over 2Become unable to find (something or someone) 丢失 I've lost the car keys 我把汽车钥匙弄丢了。 Example sentencesExamples Often the end customer loses the cargo once it leaves rail-carrier control, even though it is on his own sideline in the company yard. They are reminded of what they have been missing, what has been long lost or forgotten. Forget one suitcase (which was found), imagine losing everything. We lost the car keys before and I used the mini torch to help me find them again. Second is the fact that he is a most forgetful man and loses his all the time. The customer had lost his invoice. It took him a minute to pull up the information. Customers, who lose their key, are asked to choose the closest model from the hundreds of samples. It's been lost, of course, in all the wanderings and dissolutions, which is sad. Synonyms mislay, misplace, be unable to find drop, forget, overlook, lose track of, leave (behind), fail to keep/retain, fail to keep sight of 2.1 Cease or become unable to follow (the right route) 迷路 the clouds came down and we lost the path 云幕渐渐低垂，我们迷路了。 Example sentencesExamples I began to turn away, back towards the forest that I was sure to lose myself in, but he called out in urgency. But at Reelsville they lost the Road. He wrote, "Not a track was to be seen on the smooth green turf beneath the tall, shady oak trees." Eventually emerging onto St James's Road, we lost the path. Heather pushed her way through a dense growth of rhododendrons; she had completely lost the path now. For several days we lost ourselves in the labyrinth of the old centre. So, arriving ahead of time, I lose myself for 10 minutes down a path really called Dunwoman's Lane. As for me, well my love for New York runs so deep that I would gladly have lost myself in the city and stayed forever! To add to their difficulties, when they were far advanced among the hills, their guide lost the road, and was never able to regain it. Synonyms stray from, wander from, depart from, go astray from, fail to keep to, fail to keep in sight get lost, lose one's bearings 2.2 Evade or shake off (a pursuer) 甩掉，摆脱（追踪者） he came after me waving his revolver, but I easily lost him 他在后面挥动着左轮手枪跟着我，但我轻易地甩掉了他。 Example sentencesExamples He ducks into an alleyway in an attempt to lose his pursuers, but before he can scurry over a low wall, they catch up. He realised now that he would never lose such a determined pursuer in these corridors. He ducked and dodged around the buildings, trying to lose his pursuers but they managed to stay on his tail. There were no more trees with which to lose his pursuers, only a stretch of stone, snow dunes, and mountainside. Once there, the gunman hoped to lose his pursuers in the maze of large buildings. Synonyms escape from, evade, elude, dodge, avoid, give someone the slip, shake off, throw off, throw off the scent, duck, get rid of leave behind, outdistance, outstrip, outrun, outpace, get ahead of informal ditch archaic bilk 2.3North American informal Get rid of (an undesirable person or thing) 〈北美，非正式〉除掉，干掉（不喜欢的人或物） lose that creep! 干掉那讨厌的家伙。 Example sentencesExamples Oh, thank God, we get to lose that awful two-tone weave! You need to lose that creep before he pressures you into more things you don't want to do. They need to lose that awful voiceover. 2.4informal Cause (someone) to be unable to follow an argument or explanation. 〈非正式〉使弄不懂 sorry, Tim, you've lost me there 蒂姆，很抱歉，你把我弄糊涂了。 Example sentencesExamples He lost me there when he went into politician speak. This guy is losing me with his explanation of Mrs. Jones though. I have to admit he lost me there. This is where he loses me, and it's where the traditionalist argument always loses me. 2.5lose oneself in/be lost in Be or become deeply absorbed in (something) 沉湎于；专注于 he had been lost in thought 他陷入了沉思。 Example sentencesExamples I lost myself in the wonderful food and conversation. With a book in hand, I'd dive joyfully into the world being created, absorbing every word into my skin, losing myself in the pages. He felt as if he'd been doused in a bucket of cold water suddenly, so profound was the shock of being dragged forcibly out of the memory he had lost himself in. He says, ‘Once we have lost ourselves in the world the puppets create, we accept the message without even realising that we are learning.’ When you go to one of those stories, part of what you are doing is trying to lose yourself in something and then you go home and you think about it. If there was ever an album worth losing yourself in, this is it. But let me tell you, gardening really is one of those activities you can lose yourself in, you don't think of anything but what you're doing. I sat on my bed for hours on end, with my albums and my pop magazines, and lost myself in music. He soon lost himself in the dream world of cinema. To be honest I wanted something that would be pleasurable, that would fill up my time, that I could lose myself in. The things that we used to romanticize and use as an escape have come back with a hard edge, as forces to be reckoned with rather than as dreams to lose ourselves in. I would shirk my daily responsibilities, lay in front of the TV for hours, smoking and losing myself in what was on. A really quiet and disciplined audience lost themselves in symphonies of Schubert and Mozart. Later that afternoon, I located the book on the library shelves upstairs, and I lost myself in re-reading the novel. This album is a dark, tempestuous but highly inviting place that you could quite easily lose yourself in, and there's a real chance that you won't want to return. Athletics was my refuge, something I could lose myself in. If you've ever lost yourself in a book, a film or a piece of music, if you've ever travelled abroad on your own, you'll know about that moment of hesitation when you return to find your old life, seemingly unchanged, waiting to engulf you. I can go on raving about this film but I just prefer to let you guys watch it and lose yourself in one of the most immersive cinema experiences ever. The deep notes put forth by the pseudo-lute were something you could lose yourself in. A lone tourist baked in the sun as he lost himself in what must have been an enthralling book. Synonyms absorb, engross, occupy, engage, involve, engulf, bury 3Fail to win (a game or contest) 输掉；未赢得（游戏，竞赛） England lost the first Test match no object they lost by one vote 他们以一票之差败北。 Example sentencesExamples They failed to capitalize and ended up losing the game 6-3, coming home with the bronze medal. The Cork side have lost all four games to date, so on all known form this should result in a Naas victory. They failed to reach the knock out stages after narrowly losing the group games. It was a pity that either side had to lose this game, as both contributed so much to a wonderful evening's entertainment. England have defaulted a match in this tournament, but are yet to lose a game on the field. New Jersey took a 21-point lead into the final period of that contest yet lost the game. The bottom line is that Canada hates to lose a hockey game. That said however neither side deserved to lose a game that was played under the most appalling conditions. Games between these sides have always been close encounters and so this game proved with neither side deserving to lose the game. Something had to give in the Premiership game of the day when undefeated Aberdeen took on a Melrose team who have gone four games without losing a match. Neither side deserved to lose a game that see-sawed back and forth for the whole hour-plus. It was a brave decision, but the correct one as neither side deserved to lose this particular game. Remember last year Tour lost the same game and went on to a county final success later in the year. He lost in the match of the season to the current league champions and then lost a tight game away to an improving Aston Villa side. Both sides, having lost their opening games to Pakistan, are without a point in the tournament. Neither side deserved to lose this game but with just three minutes left on the clock Ballyhar struck for the winner. They had been the champions, now they lost the fifth game of the first round at home. They won all four league games and lost the final to West Indies in the Triangular in Zimbabwe. After the election, he fought to keep it in the same spot, failed, and lost the race. It still is a surprise when the country that invented basketball loses an international game. Synonyms be defeated, be beaten, suffer defeat, be the loser, be conquered, be vanquished, be trounced, be worsted, be bested by, get the worst, have the worst, come off second-best, lose out, fail, come to grief, meet one's waterloo 3.1with two objects Cause (someone) to fail to win (a game or contest) 使（某人）失去（某物） that shot lost him the championship 那一枪使他与冠军无缘。 Example sentencesExamples I was just a pawn in his game, he'd have moved on and thrown me away when I lost him his game. You have to realize that you missing one shot or turning the ball over one time is not going to lose you a game. That was enough to lose him that world championship he desired. Then you realise that he's not making mistakes playing a game in which a quarterback can more easily lose you a game than win it. If your opponent has already captured three of your yellow ghosts then he's in a bit of trouble as any capture he makes runs the risk of losing him the game. His antics lost him the first game, for which he didn't arrive, and the second, which he threw away. I love Brady because he never misses a week and he rarely does anything to lose you games. I really fear making a mistake or a wrong decision that costs us points or loses us games. Synonyms be defeated by, be beaten by, be conquered by, be vanquished by, be trounced by, be worsted by, be bested by, be beaten into second place by 4Earn less (money) than one is spending or has spent. 入不敷出，亏损 the paper is losing £1.5 million a month 这家报纸每月亏损150万英镑。 no object he lost heavily on box office flops 票房收入走低使他损失惨重。 Example sentencesExamples Despite a reported rise in advertising revenue, the paper continued to lose money. Our competitors will raise their prices because they're losing money. On the ownership side of it, I'm the one who has to control spending, especially if you're losing money. None of those networks wanted to show the news because it's expensive, they lose money on it. The society also operates a compensation scheme so clients will not lose money if funds are not recovered. He dealt with a number of restituted properties, but found he was losing money rather than profiting. Two of the seven ready meals factories were losing money. A similar number of posts were cut in 2003 when the company, losing money heavily at the time, announced it was off-shoring some operations to India. In fact, many of us who export are already losing money, but hoping that the dollar will drop so that our businesses will survive. That means that the government would lose money with the current tax structure. This has resulted in the nation losing a lot money as funds continue being spent on the same projects and in this way progress is retarded. Although the company claims it was not losing money, profit levels were thought to have been negligible. In terms of real money, Americans are losing income faster than at any time since the Great Depression. For the race promoter, every single event is a gamble between losing money, earning money, or just breaking even. To the best of my knowledge it still loses money so why spend even more money breaking the company up even further. These investors have been badly hit by the cutback in policy values and have lost substantial sums of money. They were told that the paper was losing money and there were no other interested buyers. This column has always argued that economic freedom and the opportunity to make, spend and lose money is central to a creative society. The airlines have taken away all the frills because they claim to be losing huge sums of money. The fund only loses money when the proposed deal is not completed for any reason. 5Waste or fail to take advantage of (time or an opportunity) 未能赶上；错过（时间，机会） he has lost his chance of becoming world No. 1 他可能已经错过夺取世界冠军的机会。 the government lost no time in holding fresh elections 政府抓紧时间举行新选举。 Example sentencesExamples It is certainly an issue I raised at the time, but time has passed and that opportunity has been lost. Unfortunately, she was gone in a blink of an eye and the opportunity to speak was lost. If the idea of buying a sugar company scared the growers, losing such an opportunity was worse. But, if we continue to bury our heads in the sand then these opportunities will be lost. Just when it seemed we were getting the go ahead, it looks like this opportunity might be lost. Out in the hallway Tim cursed silently as the gunfire sounded, knowing that their slim advantage had just been lost. But trains would have to reverse on departure from both, so any advantage would be completely lost. Was I saying that I needed to move faster, or else I would lose all of my chances? Many such opportunities would be lost if the market for generic phonenames did not exist. A great opportunity has been lost which would have rid our game of cynical fouling. That opportunity has been forever lost, to the relief of those who would now live under its flight path. It would be a great shame for this opportunity to be lost, mostly on the grounds of increased traffic. An opportunity will be lost, and proper democracy will remain just that bit further out of reach. Tying up an opponent is usually good, but it also ties up one of yours which can lose a valuable scoring opportunity. For without it, the developing world and the millions in it who live in extreme poverty will lose the best chance they have of improving their lot in life. Some might operate on or near the surface, losing much of their advantage. Both chances have been lost - the first in part, the second it seems conclusively. He repeated that it was time all worked together to ensure that we did not lose such a real opportunity for the West of Ireland. The opportunity that was lost was the opportunity to challenge the Local Plan. Outside the project this investment opportunity may well be lost. Synonyms neglect, waste, squander, fail to grasp, fail to take, fail to take advantage of, let pass, miss, forfeit, give up, ignore, disregard informal pass up, lose out on Usage The verb lose is sometimes mistakenly written as loose, as in this would cause them to loose 20 to 50 per cent (correct form is … to lose 20 to 50 per cent). There is a word loose, but it is very different—normally an adjective, meaning ‘untethered; not held in place; detached’, as in loose cobbles; the handle was loose; set loose Phrases have nothing to lose Be in a situation that is so bad that even if an action is unsuccessful it cannot make it any worse. 已然身陷绝境，何须计较得失？ she decided she had nothing to lose by taking the initiative Example sentencesExamples If not, I have nothing to lose by telling you the truth. Nobody expects us to win and so we have nothing to lose. ‘When I'm abroad I feel I have nothing to lose and everything to gain,’ he says. A year ago she beat players because she adopted a youthful attitude of having nothing to lose. Sentenced to die, a convicted contract killer has nothing to lose when he snatches a policeman's pistol. ‘We have nothing to lose and everything to gain from the game,’ he said. As someone who's faced more than her share of hardships lately, she should know a thing or two about having nothing to lose by taking a chance. We have nothing to lose, because we had nothing to start with. We've been boxed into a corner and have nothing to lose. You have nothing to lose but stand to gain peace of mind! lose heart Become discouraged. 灰心，气馁 seeing all the things that had to be done, she lost heart Example sentencesExamples It really is like a war zone there and we are losing heart. Professional athletes have found that dogged persistence, stamina and endurance - and never giving up, letting up, or losing heart is one of the main keys to becoming a great professional athlete. This is the one hurdle at which most listeners coming in hope, tend to falter and often lose heart and turn away. However discouraging the prospect, he never lost heart. What should have happened was the next week they should have marched again, but after that march people really lost heart. There is no reason for him to lose heart because such things have happened in the past. Even the most dedicated health professional, faced with continuing requests to do more with less, eventually loses heart and looks for employment in the private sector or outside the industry. He finds he is not fit physically for the struggle, and he loses heart and gives up. The activists are said to have lost heart, and the floating voters - unhappy at progress in the health service and education - will not bother to walk to the polling booth. By then the protesters appeared to have lost heart and left the lecture hall looking disconsolate as the audience gave Mr Jones a round of applause. Synonyms be despondent, lose heart, give up hope, become dispirited, become dejected, despond lose height (of an aircraft) descend to a lower level in flight. （飞机）降低飞行高度 Example sentencesExamples The plane lost height very quickly with three stops on the way down. Just one second later, 44 seconds before the collision, the Swiss air traffic controller instructed the Tupolev to lose height as quickly as possible, contrary to the automatic warning he had just received. Despite it being a biplane, I really did need very low power settings and improbably high speeds to make it lose height. Paul made a pass, then circled back round for his landing, as the revs dropped we lost height then glided in for a smooth landing. This would cause the airplane to lose height rapidly at about 3000 feet per minute. If you ease off the power, the plane loses height quite quickly. Half an hour later the airplane lost height again and the captain was on the loudspeakers once more: ‘This is your captain speaking.’ You begin to lose height very quickly and it is important to take care on this descent. It was really getting a lot darker now so I cut back to tickover and began to lose height to come in to land. It was losing height and its engine started to splutter and finally, after catching again, died away. lose one's mind (or one's marbles) informal Go insane. 〈非正式〉精神失常 Example sentencesExamples She laughed, her eyes weren't focused and she seemed to have lost her mind and gone insane. A long time ago he began to lose his mind and he started imagining things that are not real. So then I went to Nantucket and lost my mind for a minute. But in his circles all neurological problems were known as having lost one's marbles. Sometimes the cause is not very clear and we think that we have lost our mind, that we are crazy. Tragically, his boat was later found adrift, no sign of him on board, and in a filthy cabin were the insane diary entries of one who had clearly lost his mind. I lost my mind and I ran back home, trying to explain it to my mom. She looked at me as if I had lost my mind, then she looked out the window. I pretty much lost my mind between March and September. Yes, I've probably lost my mind, but if that's true, I don't really care. Synonyms become insane, lose one's reason, lose one's mind, take leave of one's senses, go off one's head, go crazy lose sleep usually with negativeWorry about something. 担心，忧虑 no one is losing any sleep over what he thinks of us 没人在意他怎样看我们。 Example sentencesExamples But people now losing sleep over looming crime should control the urge to adopt desperate devices, which may also cause them to lose friends. When she was five, I lost sleep over sending her to kindergarten. I struggled with this and even lost sleep over it. It is not something I lose sleep worrying about. The worst thing that the civilised world lost sleep over was the impending Millennium. The owner says he has avoided layoffs, but he's losing sleep. He lost sleep trying to find the right tone, but shedding the classical acting style helped. The Pope, who aides say is losing sleep over the possibility of war, celebrated a Mass that began with a stiff wind blowing in from Siberia over the flat steppes and ended in sunshine. It's a brave move and I must admit I have lost sleep over it. True, from time to time, feelings will be hurt in these discussions, but why lose sleep worrying about the self-esteem problems of politicians? Synonyms fret, be worried, be concerned, be anxious, agonize, brood, dwell on, panic, get in a panic, lose sleep, get worked up, get in a fluster, get overwrought, be on tenterhooks lose one's (or the) way 1Become unable to find one's way. 丢失 we took a wrong turn and lost our way Example sentencesExamples Gardaí believe he may have become disorientated in the dark and lost his way before straying into a field and falling into a slurry pit. The fog causes Alec to lose his way, and the moonlight comes out when he returns to Tess sleeping. On the way to Aisha, a true indigenous Berber woman, we managed to lose the way many times. You cannot really lose the way since you only need stay on the top of the ridge and go up. I wasn't the only one who lost the way either so just be sure to keep your wits about you. Pushing through the trees and undergrowth was definitely not fun, and there were several panicky parts where I was sure that we had lost our way, but now, finally, we were clear of that. Lost in thought, Leon didn't realize that he had lost his way, his horse having wandered away from the group. Being unable to read sometimes slowed me down when I lost my way on the road and kept me from being all I could be, but it no longer saddened me. When he tried he would lose his way and not only couldn't he find the water, he couldn't find his way back to the barn. Thomas ran and ran, and was able to escape from the big dog; but, by that time he had lost his way. 1.1No longer have a clear idea of one's purpose or motivation in an activity. 〈喻〉（办事或经营中）不再有明确目标（或动力）；迷失方向 the company has lost its way and should pull out of general insurance 公司已经迷失了经营方向，应该撤出常规保险业务。 Example sentencesExamples The difficult thing is doing what I do, getting hold of players who have lost their way and making them into good ones. His lectures were extremely clear and well-organized; he never lost his way in complicated arguments. They began as Keynesian demand management adherents but lost their way during the economic crisis of the 1970's to finish up mild monetarists. I was making the point that we had really lost our way and lost the support of a lot of folks. Acres of land had been left wasting, livestock and citrus farming had lost their way and the workers had been retrained in professional and academic disciplines, he said. As the years have gone by, I have come to believe that when we lose that spark of innocence, we begin to wander like sheep and inevitably lose our way. France, eventually unable to withstand the English pressure once the home side had started to put their game together, lost their way in the final quarter. It is this consent and the belief in that promise which is wavering as fighting spreads - and along with it the idea that they are losing their way and have no clear idea how to reassert themselves. ‘It is clear that the Government have lost their way on law and order,’ he writes. But to me, it says a lot more about how newspaper editors - and not readers - have lost their way. you can't lose Used to express the belief that someone must inevitably profit from an action or undertaking. 包赚，包你得益 we're offering them for only £2.50—you can't lose! 我们仅以2.5英镑的价格提供商品，包你得益！ Example sentencesExamples Here we will look at another Craps betting option in which, for one roll anyway, you can't lose! Do what you love with people you care about, and you can't lose. He convinces you if you play the schemes right, you can't lose. Forget the nervous breakdown Helen, take my advice and go for it girl - you can't lose. Go on, you can't lose and you just might acquire the confidence to make an outstanding success at your home business or other challenging venture! As long as you follow this rule, you can't lose! You should bet the table limit, because you can't lose. Go for it - you can't lose. In other words, you can't lose, and you can only gain. For the most part, keep being a good friend and see what develops; Even if you don't become boyfriend / girlfriend, you'll have a great guy pal - either way, you can't lose! Phrasal Verbs lose out 1Be beaten in competition. （在竞争中）失败；（被）取代 they lost out to France in the finals Example sentencesExamples It is thought that Urbis, which was supposed to pay for itself, has lost out to the Imperial War Museum, the revamped City Art Gallery and the Museum of Science and Industry, which are all free. The Scots lost out to Wales 22-14 in the opening round of the event, but hope for better things in the 2.30 pm kick-off today. Scotland may have lost out to Ireland as the location for the filming of Braveheart but Scottish Screen is to hit back in its biggest drive ever to attract Hollywood film-makers to the country. In cold and wintry conditions in Kirkwall on Saturday, Orkney's First and Second rugby squads lost out to their visiting opponents. In the end, he narrowly lost out to Australian double-act Lano & Woodley. What do you give the company that had every advantage going and still lost out to smaller, less privileged competitors? Only two of the ten performers up before the public vote on Saturday night were able to make it through to the final round and Kate was among those who lost out to fellow contestants Mark and Roxanne. There were runs galore at Rawtenstall where the home side lost out to Werneth after the visitors had plundered 307-6 off the home attack. Meanwhile, a further blow has been dealt to Scottish sailing with the announcement that Edinburgh will not feature in the Volvo Ocean Race having lost out to Rotterdam. She added that the town also lost out to places such as Moreton and Stow, which have more picturesque architecture and passing tourist traffic. Now we learn that Scotland has lost out to Newcastle over a donation of at least £1m because of this dogged refusal to countenance educational alternatives. In 1980, Denis Healey lost out to Michael Foot, and Labour imploded. Scotland's rolling glens and scenic lochs have already lost out to eastern Europe and are now losing the battle to attract India's lucrative film industry, movie chiefs have warned. Two unhappy chappies who lost out to female candidates at the last election obtained a finding under employment laws that all-women lists were illegal. Plans for the building to replace five temporary classrooms at the school have been on hold since the Council lost out to a higher bidder for the land earlier this year. When Celtic lost out to Basle in a Champions League qualifier 14 months ago, it was widely agreed that the side were back-sliding. Division three leaders Frog lost out to Holgate WMC. ‘I really thought that I'd done my stint as leader, but when David lost out to a handful of votes a lot of new councillors were voted in,’ she said. The music industry says it has lost out to free, unauthorised song-sharing websites and the proliferation of CD-copying. Peers yesterday urged Ministers to step in if the National Railway Museum lost out to a foreign investor in the bidding war for the train. Synonyms be defeated, be beaten, suffer defeat, be the loser, be conquered, be vanquished, be trounced, be worsted, be bested by, get the worst, have the worst, come off second-best, lose out, fail, come to grief, meet one's waterloo 2Be deprived of an opportunity; be disadvantaged. 未能得到；错过；未能赶上 youngsters who were losing out on regular schooling 错过接受正规教育机会的年轻人。 Example sentencesExamples It also argues that the public is now losing out on their return for investment as it is being taken away from them by the government. The recent Easter celebrations, which according to the Bulgarian tradition include eating lamb, were a little overshadowed by news that the country is losing out on lamb exports. Understandably, with farmers facing loss of income through losing out on premiums and sale of lambs, the scheme has evoked a good deal of anger among the sheep farming community. ‘Without milk and eggs, you are losing out on nutrients,’ she says. They also created fascinating projects that showed how to save cement and other construction materials, without losing out on quality or strength of the structure. Owners of shops, hotels and business establishments on this street, felt they were losing out on genuine customers who couldn't find space for their vehicles. It is a huge problem because prisoners who are taking drugs do not take part in the various programmes available to them in the jail and are losing out on that chance. That's a huge dent in our finances and obviously if we have to remain closed, we're losing out on a massive chunk of our income at the same time. Many of these farmers did not have an opportunity to increase numbers and as a result, are losing out on any compensation. As a Middle Eastern history student, losing out on learning such a rich language has deeper implications than you may think. Synonyms be unable to take advantage of, fail to benefit from Origin Old English losian 'perish, destroy', also 'become unable to find', from los 'loss'. loose from Middle English: The medieval word loose is related to Old English lose and loss, and also to the ending -less, signifying ‘without’. The sense ‘immoral, promiscuous’ dates from around 1470 from the original sense ‘free from bonds’. The term a loose cannon sounds as if it should be centuries old, perhaps from the days of warships in Napoleonic battles. In fact, the first recorded uses are from the late 19th century, and the phrase only really gained currency in the 1970s. That said, it does come from the idea that a cannon which has broken loose from its mounting would be a particularly dangerous hazard on any ship, but especially a wooden one. See also fast Rhymes abuse, accuse, adieux, amuse, bemuse, billets-doux, blues, booze, bruise, choose, Clews, confuse, contuse, cruise, cruse, Cruz, diffuse, do's, Druze, effuse, enthuse, excuse, fuse (US fuze), Hughes, incuse, interfuse, Mahfouz, mews, misuse, muse, news, ooze, Ouse, perfuse, peruse, rhythm-and-blues, ruse, schmooze, snooze, suffuse, Toulouse, transfuse, trews, use, Vaduz, Veracruz, who's, whose, youse verb.1 phr. phr.v. Definition of lose in US English: lose verbluzlo͞oz [with object] 1Be deprived of or cease to have or retain (something) 失去 I've lost my appetite 我没有胃口。 Linda was very upset about losing her job 琳达因为丢了工作很沮丧。 the company may find itself losing customers to cheaper rivals 公司可能会发现客户被价格更优惠的对手抢走了。 Example sentencesExamples But he lost his building society job because he refused to remove his eyebrow piercing. Workers had been warned last week that they could lose their jobs after the site lost a major contract. It only takes one bad experience for you to lose a potential lifetime customer. But you know, the manufacturing jobs disappear, you lose control over your space. As for Tom, a clear sign when a forward has lost confidence or the appetite for the fray is when they choose to kick rather than take contact. Schools in Bradford's most deprived areas could lose thousands of pounds of funding. Customers stood to lose a large proportion of their capital because the value of the 30 companies plunged as the stock market nosedived. Schools from deprived areas are still losing a proportion of their pupils, probably those with higher parental support and motivation and hence are even more deprived. Players will lose time and money, people will lose jobs, and customers will lose their product. I didn't dare make a move in case she got upset and I lost my free transport. Speaking from Paris, he said he was relieved at the outcome but still upset at having lost his job. Not only are they losing their jobs, they're losing their pensions as well. As a result, customers face losing hundreds of pounds if they no longer wish to travel. Thousands of customers and suppliers lost money when the group collapsed into administration last year. Customers risk losing music legally downloaded from the internet if they are not aware of small-print restrictions on which machines you can play the songs. If family support disappears and a patient loses housing or a job or both, what can the clinician do? This de-motivates people - as a result they leave the party, they lose enthusiasm, they cease to be active. It's been upsetting because we have lost a lot of our local customers, who are our main supporters. Businesses and service organizations were losing employees and customers weekly, daily, and eventually hourly. Perhaps a third or more of all cropland is losing topsoil faster than new soil is forming, thereby reducing the land's inherent productivity. Synonyms be deprived of, suffer the loss of, no longer have, stop having 1.1 Cause (someone) to fail to gain or retain (something) 使（某人）失去（某物） you lost me my appointment at the university 你让我失去了在伦敦大学的职位。 Example sentencesExamples His plea of insanity lost him his job, and his credibility. But it's a game that might lose you just as many regular readers as it gets you. Off I went into another manic episode, one that lost me my first job as a social worker, due to my instability. He fulfilled his duties conscientiously, but his support for the proclamation of the district as a city lost him his seat in 1950. 'Being female lost me my job'. Spending time in an alcohol detox centre lost me my career with the federal government. Synonyms be unable to take advantage of, fail to benefit from 1.2 Be deprived of (a close relative or friend) through their death or as a result of the breaking off of a relationship. （因死亡、断交）痛失（亲属，朋友） she lost her husband in the fire 她的丈夫在大火中丧生。 Example sentencesExamples Many cats belong to elderly, lonely people, their only companion is their furry feline. To them the loss of their beloved friend is akin to losing a close relative. And for my mother, this is a double loss, she has lost her friend, sister and daughter. In recent years, he has lost a relative and a friend to the disease. For the thousands who had lost relatives or friends, it had the effect of a further slap in the face. It seems that every week a friend of mine loses a parent. My heartfelt sympathy goes out to all the families who have lost sons and husbands, fathers, brothers. Mary, like the other voluntary members of the group, has a personal interest in the fight against cancer losing relatives and friends to the disease. It is far more tragic for parents to lose a child from a sudden death; it leaves them with many unsaid things and feelings of regret. Charlie survived the war unhurt, although he lost many relatives and close friends. And to those who have lost relatives and friends, be assured that you are not forgotten. She lost her daughter and husband in an accident and at the time she was pregnant and miscarried. A friend of mine recently lost his mother to cancer after she was hospitalized for one year. What about the countless German families who lost their sons and husbands during the conflict? Grief and pride bind the families who lost their sons, fathers, brothers, or husbands to war. The death of any relative is devastating but to lose three grandchildren in tragic circumstances is more than most of us could bear. Too many of us lose our mothers, sisters, daughters and friends to this disease. Both my parents lost relatives very dear to them, and the wider circle of relations has suffered some tough times too. Many of my friends, and my wife, lost grandparents during their twenties too. It was so horrible not only losing my father, but losing my closest friend too! The pair were both touched by the work of the specialist ward when they lost children to premature deaths. 1.3 (of a pregnant woman) miscarry (a baby) or suffer the death of (a baby) during childbirth. （孕妇）流产；产下死婴 Example sentencesExamples She became convinced she was losing her baby and insisted her husband take her to hospital. These problems increase their risk of not being able to get pregnant, losing a baby, or having a baby too early. I hope she doesn't lose the baby and die herself in the process. At home she rebelled, ran away, did drugs, slept around, got pregnant and lost the baby. The woman was three months pregnant and lost her baby as a result of the collision. While some women may want to become pregnant fairly soon after losing a baby, the decision to have another baby is not an easy one and must be taken only when both partners feel it is right. She has reportedly been put under round-the-clock medical care over fears she could lose her unborn baby.. Doctors are gravely concerned that she could lose her baby and the family has asked to be left in peace to cope with the ordeal. But more than anything else she felt a deep sadness for the babies she had lost. Jane felt particular empathy for couples who had problem pregnancies or who lost their baby. However, Fiona fell pregnant and now wants to get through these nine months, knowing she could lose her baby. She did lose her third baby however, although I have no idea if this had any connection with smoking. Other women said they were attacked when pregnant and claim they lost their babies. She was taken to hospital losing blood and was told by doctors she had been five months pregnant but had lost her baby. 1.4be lost Be destroyed or killed, especially through accident or as a result of military action. （尤指事故、军事行动中）遇难，牺牲 a fishing disaster in which 19 local men were lost 一次导致129名当地男子死亡的渔难。 Example sentencesExamples The ship had 5 officers and 33 men on board when sunk, of whom 2 officers and 24 men were lost. Forty additional men were lost either from gunfire or tragic mishap. Twelve men were lost and the ship abandoned; she later sank while under tow in the South Atlantic. Her entire ship's company of 30 men were lost. While attempting rescue a small boat manned by local men capsized and four men were lost. Subsequently it became known that a second lifeboat and her crew were lost in the heroic attempt to relieve the same vessel. 1.5 Decrease in (body weight); undergo a reduction of (a specified amount of weight) 减轻（体重）；减少（重量） she couldn't eat and began to lose weight 她无法进食，体重开始下降。 Example sentencesExamples I lost some weight last year in an effort to calm down my increasingly regular heartburn. Weight management is a complex issue, so that the amount of weight lost will vary for each individual. Subsequent programmes should be based on how much weight has been lost initially. However, having lost some weight I am still not a size 10 and the dress is too tight. To lose body weight, essentially you have to burn more calories than you take in. She had tried other slimming classes but was unsuccessful as any weight she lost she put back on again quickly. I've not lost the amount of weight I hoped but I have lost some and I'm feeling a lot better for it. The team which loses the most weight combined is the winner that week. They also showed trends toward losing lesser amounts of body weight. If someone loses much more weight, it could be a cause for concern. Everyone is weighed each week and the slimmer who loses the most weight each week is praised and earns the title of ‘Slimmer of the Week’. And that motivation, rather than the diet, might explain whatever weight they lose. That helped him tone up, lose a little more weight, and feel even better. But, remember, the amount of weight you lose is entirely at your own discretion and you can join in or drop out of the campaign at any time. It is imperative that he loses substantial amount of weight. Become concerned if the patient begins to lose more weight than 6 pounds in 6 months. He weighs her to make sure she is losing the amount of weight he has demanded. They should not generally be advised to lose any more weight, but I would suggest they work on their shape. Now fully recovered, she wanted to reclaim her body and lose some of the weight she had gained as a result of all the medication. If you really need a number, a healthy amount of weight to lose is about one pound per week. 1.6 (of a watch or clock) become slow by (a specified amount of time) （钟表）变慢（若干时间） this clock will neither gain nor lose a second 这个钟走时丝毫不差。 Example sentencesExamples They gradually fell out of step, with one clock losing 5 seconds a day in relation to the other. For example: If your watch loses 5 seconds while being worn during the day, try to find a position in which the watch gains about 5 seconds overnight. On most days, the watch loses about 0.5 seconds. Unfortunately the watch loses 11 seconds a day. It also depends on the constancy of its rate; meaning, that a watch gains or loses the exact same amount of time each day. 1.7lose itinformal Lose control of one's temper or emotions. 〈非正式〉情绪失控 in the end I completely lost it—I was screaming at them 最后我实在控制不了情绪，冲着他们大叫了起来。 Example sentencesExamples As they watched us, mainlanders would shake their heads and wonder whether we had lost it completely. The last thing she remembered before losing it completely was moving away from town. If he calls her Tracey I will lose it completely and burst out laughing. I don't know what triggered it this time around, or what it is that keeps holding me back from losing it completely. This scene is particularly important since in the very act of proving his manhood, the hero loses it completely. There is a moment in the book when Patrick completely loses it. I like that scene where Eva completely loses it and throws Kevin across the room and breaks his arm. I completely lost it and shouted and screamed at him about how selfish he is. Sadly, Hunter loses it completely in the next paragraph. This was it, for me - the moment that I lost it and started crying uncontrollably. Josie rose to me, to keep me from losing it completely, but she was too slow. Since the illness, well in the last few weeks really, he's lost it over trivial stupid things. I think it was at this time that I lost it, because I did not realise a crime was taking place. He completely loses it, and lays his head down on the table, enjoying the moment. He could have lost it completely and run off screaming into the night, with no one at all on his tail. I'm told Roseanna has lost it completely and has taken to sticking pins into wax images of her old pal Nicola. Any suggestions that she was losing it are hereby completely rescinded. If I see something that slightly resembles a spider, I'll freak out and lose it right on the spot. Synonyms become very angry, fly into a rage, explode, blow up, erupt, lose control, go berserk, breathe fire, begin to rant and rave, flare up, boil over 2Become unable to find (something or someone) 丢失 I've lost the car keys 我把汽车钥匙弄丢了。 Example sentencesExamples It's been lost, of course, in all the wanderings and dissolutions, which is sad. The customer had lost his invoice. It took him a minute to pull up the information. We lost the car keys before and I used the mini torch to help me find them again. They are reminded of what they have been missing, what has been long lost or forgotten. Customers, who lose their key, are asked to choose the closest model from the hundreds of samples. Second is the fact that he is a most forgetful man and loses his all the time. Often the end customer loses the cargo once it leaves rail-carrier control, even though it is on his own sideline in the company yard. Forget one suitcase (which was found), imagine losing everything. Synonyms mislay, misplace, be unable to find 2.1 Cease or become unable to follow (the right route) 迷路 the clouds came down and we lost the path 云幕渐渐低垂，我们迷路了。 Example sentencesExamples As for me, well my love for New York runs so deep that I would gladly have lost myself in the city and stayed forever! To add to their difficulties, when they were far advanced among the hills, their guide lost the road, and was never able to regain it. So, arriving ahead of time, I lose myself for 10 minutes down a path really called Dunwoman's Lane. For several days we lost ourselves in the labyrinth of the old centre. Eventually emerging onto St James's Road, we lost the path. Heather pushed her way through a dense growth of rhododendrons; she had completely lost the path now. But at Reelsville they lost the Road. He wrote, "Not a track was to be seen on the smooth green turf beneath the tall, shady oak trees." I began to turn away, back towards the forest that I was sure to lose myself in, but he called out in urgency. Synonyms stray from, wander from, depart from, go astray from, fail to keep to, fail to keep in sight 2.2 Evade or shake off (a pursuer) 甩掉，摆脱（追踪者） he came after me waving his revolver, but I easily lost him 他在后面挥动着左轮手枪跟着我，但我轻易地甩掉了他。 Example sentencesExamples He realised now that he would never lose such a determined pursuer in these corridors. Once there, the gunman hoped to lose his pursuers in the maze of large buildings. He ducked and dodged around the buildings, trying to lose his pursuers but they managed to stay on his tail. He ducks into an alleyway in an attempt to lose his pursuers, but before he can scurry over a low wall, they catch up. There were no more trees with which to lose his pursuers, only a stretch of stone, snow dunes, and mountainside. Synonyms escape from, evade, elude, dodge, avoid, give someone the slip, shake off, throw off, throw off the scent, duck, get rid of 2.3North American informal Get rid of (an undesirable person or thing) 〈北美，非正式〉除掉，干掉（不喜欢的人或物） lose that creep! 干掉那讨厌的家伙。 Example sentencesExamples Oh, thank God, we get to lose that awful two-tone weave! You need to lose that creep before he pressures you into more things you don't want to do. They need to lose that awful voiceover. 2.4informal Cause (someone) to be unable to follow an argument or explanation. 〈非正式〉使弄不懂 sorry, Tim, you've lost me there 蒂姆，很抱歉，你把我弄糊涂了。 Example sentencesExamples I have to admit he lost me there. He lost me there when he went into politician speak. This is where he loses me, and it's where the traditionalist argument always loses me. This guy is losing me with his explanation of Mrs. Jones though. 2.5lose oneself in/be lost in Be or become deeply absorbed in (something) 沉湎于；专注于 he had been lost in thought 他陷入了沉思。 Example sentencesExamples This album is a dark, tempestuous but highly inviting place that you could quite easily lose yourself in, and there's a real chance that you won't want to return. A really quiet and disciplined audience lost themselves in symphonies of Schubert and Mozart. A lone tourist baked in the sun as he lost himself in what must have been an enthralling book. The deep notes put forth by the pseudo-lute were something you could lose yourself in. With a book in hand, I'd dive joyfully into the world being created, absorbing every word into my skin, losing myself in the pages. I sat on my bed for hours on end, with my albums and my pop magazines, and lost myself in music. Later that afternoon, I located the book on the library shelves upstairs, and I lost myself in re-reading the novel. I can go on raving about this film but I just prefer to let you guys watch it and lose yourself in one of the most immersive cinema experiences ever. He soon lost himself in the dream world of cinema. If there was ever an album worth losing yourself in, this is it. If you've ever lost yourself in a book, a film or a piece of music, if you've ever travelled abroad on your own, you'll know about that moment of hesitation when you return to find your old life, seemingly unchanged, waiting to engulf you. But let me tell you, gardening really is one of those activities you can lose yourself in, you don't think of anything but what you're doing. I lost myself in the wonderful food and conversation. The things that we used to romanticize and use as an escape have come back with a hard edge, as forces to be reckoned with rather than as dreams to lose ourselves in. He says, ‘Once we have lost ourselves in the world the puppets create, we accept the message without even realising that we are learning.’ Athletics was my refuge, something I could lose myself in. When you go to one of those stories, part of what you are doing is trying to lose yourself in something and then you go home and you think about it. I would shirk my daily responsibilities, lay in front of the TV for hours, smoking and losing myself in what was on. To be honest I wanted something that would be pleasurable, that would fill up my time, that I could lose myself in. He felt as if he'd been doused in a bucket of cold water suddenly, so profound was the shock of being dragged forcibly out of the memory he had lost himself in. Synonyms absorb, engross, occupy, engage, involve, engulf, bury 3Fail to win (a game or contest) 输掉；未赢得（游戏，竞赛） no object they lost by one vote 他们以一票之差败北。 the Bears lost the final game of the series Example sentencesExamples They failed to capitalize and ended up losing the game 6-3, coming home with the bronze medal. They won all four league games and lost the final to West Indies in the Triangular in Zimbabwe. It still is a surprise when the country that invented basketball loses an international game. He lost in the match of the season to the current league champions and then lost a tight game away to an improving Aston Villa side. They failed to reach the knock out stages after narrowly losing the group games. It was a brave decision, but the correct one as neither side deserved to lose this particular game. They had been the champions, now they lost the fifth game of the first round at home. Neither side deserved to lose this game but with just three minutes left on the clock Ballyhar struck for the winner. England have defaulted a match in this tournament, but are yet to lose a game on the field. New Jersey took a 21-point lead into the final period of that contest yet lost the game. Something had to give in the Premiership game of the day when undefeated Aberdeen took on a Melrose team who have gone four games without losing a match. The bottom line is that Canada hates to lose a hockey game. Both sides, having lost their opening games to Pakistan, are without a point in the tournament. Remember last year Tour lost the same game and went on to a county final success later in the year. That said however neither side deserved to lose a game that was played under the most appalling conditions. After the election, he fought to keep it in the same spot, failed, and lost the race. Games between these sides have always been close encounters and so this game proved with neither side deserving to lose the game. The Cork side have lost all four games to date, so on all known form this should result in a Naas victory. It was a pity that either side had to lose this game, as both contributed so much to a wonderful evening's entertainment. Neither side deserved to lose a game that see-sawed back and forth for the whole hour-plus. Synonyms be defeated, be beaten, suffer defeat, be the loser, be conquered, be vanquished, be trounced, be worsted, be bested by, get the worst, have the worst, come off second-best, lose out, fail, come to grief, meet one's waterloo 3.1 Cause (someone) to fail to win (a game or contest) 使（某人）失去（某物） that shot lost him the championship 那一枪使他与冠军无缘。 Example sentencesExamples I love Brady because he never misses a week and he rarely does anything to lose you games. I really fear making a mistake or a wrong decision that costs us points or loses us games. Then you realise that he's not making mistakes playing a game in which a quarterback can more easily lose you a game than win it. You have to realize that you missing one shot or turning the ball over one time is not going to lose you a game. His antics lost him the first game, for which he didn't arrive, and the second, which he threw away. I was just a pawn in his game, he'd have moved on and thrown me away when I lost him his game. If your opponent has already captured three of your yellow ghosts then he's in a bit of trouble as any capture he makes runs the risk of losing him the game. That was enough to lose him that world championship he desired. Synonyms be defeated by, be beaten by, be conquered by, be vanquished by, be trounced by, be worsted by, be bested by, be beaten into second place by 4Earn less (money) than one is spending or has spent. 入不敷出，亏损 the paper is losing $500,000 a month 这家报纸每月亏损150万英镑。 no object he lost heavily on box-office flops 票房收入走低使他损失惨重。 Example sentencesExamples He dealt with a number of restituted properties, but found he was losing money rather than profiting. That means that the government would lose money with the current tax structure. They were told that the paper was losing money and there were no other interested buyers. Two of the seven ready meals factories were losing money. The society also operates a compensation scheme so clients will not lose money if funds are not recovered. This has resulted in the nation losing a lot money as funds continue being spent on the same projects and in this way progress is retarded. None of those networks wanted to show the news because it's expensive, they lose money on it. The fund only loses money when the proposed deal is not completed for any reason. In fact, many of us who export are already losing money, but hoping that the dollar will drop so that our businesses will survive. Although the company claims it was not losing money, profit levels were thought to have been negligible. This column has always argued that economic freedom and the opportunity to make, spend and lose money is central to a creative society. In terms of real money, Americans are losing income faster than at any time since the Great Depression. On the ownership side of it, I'm the one who has to control spending, especially if you're losing money. These investors have been badly hit by the cutback in policy values and have lost substantial sums of money. A similar number of posts were cut in 2003 when the company, losing money heavily at the time, announced it was off-shoring some operations to India. To the best of my knowledge it still loses money so why spend even more money breaking the company up even further. The airlines have taken away all the frills because they claim to be losing huge sums of money. Our competitors will raise their prices because they're losing money. Despite a reported rise in advertising revenue, the paper continued to lose money. For the race promoter, every single event is a gamble between losing money, earning money, or just breaking even. 5Waste or fail to take advantage of (time or an opportunity) 未能赶上；错过（时间，机会） they lost every chance to score in the first inning he lost no time in attacking his opponent's tax proposals Example sentencesExamples A great opportunity has been lost which would have rid our game of cynical fouling. Many such opportunities would be lost if the market for generic phonenames did not exist. Just when it seemed we were getting the go ahead, it looks like this opportunity might be lost. For without it, the developing world and the millions in it who live in extreme poverty will lose the best chance they have of improving their lot in life. Outside the project this investment opportunity may well be lost. It is certainly an issue I raised at the time, but time has passed and that opportunity has been lost. Both chances have been lost - the first in part, the second it seems conclusively. But, if we continue to bury our heads in the sand then these opportunities will be lost. If the idea of buying a sugar company scared the growers, losing such an opportunity was worse. He repeated that it was time all worked together to ensure that we did not lose such a real opportunity for the West of Ireland. Out in the hallway Tim cursed silently as the gunfire sounded, knowing that their slim advantage had just been lost. But trains would have to reverse on departure from both, so any advantage would be completely lost. Unfortunately, she was gone in a blink of an eye and the opportunity to speak was lost. An opportunity will be lost, and proper democracy will remain just that bit further out of reach. It would be a great shame for this opportunity to be lost, mostly on the grounds of increased traffic. The opportunity that was lost was the opportunity to challenge the Local Plan. Tying up an opponent is usually good, but it also ties up one of yours which can lose a valuable scoring opportunity. Was I saying that I needed to move faster, or else I would lose all of my chances? That opportunity has been forever lost, to the relief of those who would now live under its flight path. Some might operate on or near the surface, losing much of their advantage. Synonyms neglect, waste, squander, fail to grasp, fail to take, fail to take advantage of, let pass, miss, forfeit, give up, ignore, disregard Usage See loose Phrases have nothing to lose Be in a situation that is so bad that even if an action or undertaking is unsuccessful, it cannot make it any worse. 已然身陷绝境，何须计较得失？ Example sentencesExamples As someone who's faced more than her share of hardships lately, she should know a thing or two about having nothing to lose by taking a chance. We've been boxed into a corner and have nothing to lose. ‘We have nothing to lose and everything to gain from the game,’ he said. ‘When I'm abroad I feel I have nothing to lose and everything to gain,’ he says. Nobody expects us to win and so we have nothing to lose. A year ago she beat players because she adopted a youthful attitude of having nothing to lose. Sentenced to die, a convicted contract killer has nothing to lose when he snatches a policeman's pistol. If not, I have nothing to lose by telling you the truth. You have nothing to lose but stand to gain peace of mind! We have nothing to lose, because we had nothing to start with. lose heart Become discouraged. 灰心，气馁 Example sentencesExamples The activists are said to have lost heart, and the floating voters - unhappy at progress in the health service and education - will not bother to walk to the polling booth. By then the protesters appeared to have lost heart and left the lecture hall looking disconsolate as the audience gave Mr Jones a round of applause. It really is like a war zone there and we are losing heart. This is the one hurdle at which most listeners coming in hope, tend to falter and often lose heart and turn away. Even the most dedicated health professional, faced with continuing requests to do more with less, eventually loses heart and looks for employment in the private sector or outside the industry. However discouraging the prospect, he never lost heart. There is no reason for him to lose heart because such things have happened in the past. What should have happened was the next week they should have marched again, but after that march people really lost heart. He finds he is not fit physically for the struggle, and he loses heart and gives up. Professional athletes have found that dogged persistence, stamina and endurance - and never giving up, letting up, or losing heart is one of the main keys to becoming a great professional athlete. Synonyms be despondent, lose heart, give up hope, become dispirited, become dejected, despond lose height (of an aircraft) descend to a lower level in flight. （飞机）降低飞行高度 Example sentencesExamples It was losing height and its engine started to splutter and finally, after catching again, died away. This would cause the airplane to lose height rapidly at about 3000 feet per minute. The plane lost height very quickly with three stops on the way down. Half an hour later the airplane lost height again and the captain was on the loudspeakers once more: ‘This is your captain speaking.’ Paul made a pass, then circled back round for his landing, as the revs dropped we lost height then glided in for a smooth landing. Just one second later, 44 seconds before the collision, the Swiss air traffic controller instructed the Tupolev to lose height as quickly as possible, contrary to the automatic warning he had just received. It was really getting a lot darker now so I cut back to tickover and began to lose height to come in to land. Despite it being a biplane, I really did need very low power settings and improbably high speeds to make it lose height. You begin to lose height very quickly and it is important to take care on this descent. If you ease off the power, the plane loses height quite quickly. lose one's mind (or one's marbles) informal Go insane. 〈非正式〉精神失常 Example sentencesExamples She looked at me as if I had lost my mind, then she looked out the window. So then I went to Nantucket and lost my mind for a minute. I pretty much lost my mind between March and September. But in his circles all neurological problems were known as having lost one's marbles. A long time ago he began to lose his mind and he started imagining things that are not real. I lost my mind and I ran back home, trying to explain it to my mom. Tragically, his boat was later found adrift, no sign of him on board, and in a filthy cabin were the insane diary entries of one who had clearly lost his mind. Sometimes the cause is not very clear and we think that we have lost our mind, that we are crazy. She laughed, her eyes weren't focused and she seemed to have lost her mind and gone insane. Yes, I've probably lost my mind, but if that's true, I don't really care. Synonyms become insane, lose one's reason, lose one's mind, take leave of one's senses, go off one's head, go crazy lose sleep usually with negativeWorry about something. 担心，忧虑 no one is losing any sleep over what he thinks of us 没人在意他怎样看我们。 Example sentencesExamples He lost sleep trying to find the right tone, but shedding the classical acting style helped. It's a brave move and I must admit I have lost sleep over it. The Pope, who aides say is losing sleep over the possibility of war, celebrated a Mass that began with a stiff wind blowing in from Siberia over the flat steppes and ended in sunshine. True, from time to time, feelings will be hurt in these discussions, but why lose sleep worrying about the self-esteem problems of politicians? But people now losing sleep over looming crime should control the urge to adopt desperate devices, which may also cause them to lose friends. I struggled with this and even lost sleep over it. The worst thing that the civilised world lost sleep over was the impending Millennium. When she was five, I lost sleep over sending her to kindergarten. It is not something I lose sleep worrying about. The owner says he has avoided layoffs, but he's losing sleep. Synonyms fret, be worried, be concerned, be anxious, agonize, brood, dwell on, panic, get in a panic, lose sleep, get worked up, get in a fluster, get overwrought, be on tenterhooks lose one's (or the) way 1Become lost; fail to reach one's destination. 迷路 Example sentencesExamples Gardaí believe he may have become disorientated in the dark and lost his way before straying into a field and falling into a slurry pit. Thomas ran and ran, and was able to escape from the big dog; but, by that time he had lost his way. Pushing through the trees and undergrowth was definitely not fun, and there were several panicky parts where I was sure that we had lost our way, but now, finally, we were clear of that. Being unable to read sometimes slowed me down when I lost my way on the road and kept me from being all I could be, but it no longer saddened me. Lost in thought, Leon didn't realize that he had lost his way, his horse having wandered away from the group. The fog causes Alec to lose his way, and the moonlight comes out when he returns to Tess sleeping. When he tried he would lose his way and not only couldn't he find the water, he couldn't find his way back to the barn. I wasn't the only one who lost the way either so just be sure to keep your wits about you. You cannot really lose the way since you only need stay on the top of the ridge and go up. On the way to Aisha, a true indigenous Berber woman, we managed to lose the way many times. 1.1No longer have a clear idea of one's purpose or motivation in an activity or business. 〈喻〉（办事或经营中）不再有明确目标（或动力）；迷失方向 the company has lost its way and should pull out of general insurance 公司已经迷失了经营方向，应该撤出常规保险业务。 Example sentencesExamples The difficult thing is doing what I do, getting hold of players who have lost their way and making them into good ones. Acres of land had been left wasting, livestock and citrus farming had lost their way and the workers had been retrained in professional and academic disciplines, he said. His lectures were extremely clear and well-organized; he never lost his way in complicated arguments. ‘It is clear that the Government have lost their way on law and order,’ he writes. It is this consent and the belief in that promise which is wavering as fighting spreads - and along with it the idea that they are losing their way and have no clear idea how to reassert themselves. They began as Keynesian demand management adherents but lost their way during the economic crisis of the 1970's to finish up mild monetarists. But to me, it says a lot more about how newspaper editors - and not readers - have lost their way. As the years have gone by, I have come to believe that when we lose that spark of innocence, we begin to wander like sheep and inevitably lose our way. France, eventually unable to withstand the English pressure once the home side had started to put their game together, lost their way in the final quarter. I was making the point that we had really lost our way and lost the support of a lot of folks. you can't lose Used to express the conviction that someone must inevitably profit from an action or undertaking. 包赚，包你得益 we're offering them for only $5.00—you can't lose! 我们仅以2.5英镑的价格提供商品，包你得益！ Example sentencesExamples He convinces you if you play the schemes right, you can't lose. In other words, you can't lose, and you can only gain. You should bet the table limit, because you can't lose. As long as you follow this rule, you can't lose! For the most part, keep being a good friend and see what develops; Even if you don't become boyfriend / girlfriend, you'll have a great guy pal - either way, you can't lose! Go on, you can't lose and you just might acquire the confidence to make an outstanding success at your home business or other challenging venture! Do what you love with people you care about, and you can't lose. Forget the nervous breakdown Helen, take my advice and go for it girl - you can't lose. Go for it - you can't lose. Here we will look at another Craps betting option in which, for one roll anyway, you can't lose! Phrasal Verbs lose out 1Be deprived of an opportunity to do or obtain something; be disadvantaged. 未能得到；错过；未能赶上 youngsters who were losing out on regular schooling 错过接受正规教育机会的年轻人。 Example sentencesExamples Understandably, with farmers facing loss of income through losing out on premiums and sale of lambs, the scheme has evoked a good deal of anger among the sheep farming community. Many of these farmers did not have an opportunity to increase numbers and as a result, are losing out on any compensation. ‘Without milk and eggs, you are losing out on nutrients,’ she says. The recent Easter celebrations, which according to the Bulgarian tradition include eating lamb, were a little overshadowed by news that the country is losing out on lamb exports. That's a huge dent in our finances and obviously if we have to remain closed, we're losing out on a massive chunk of our income at the same time. Owners of shops, hotels and business establishments on this street, felt they were losing out on genuine customers who couldn't find space for their vehicles. As a Middle Eastern history student, losing out on learning such a rich language has deeper implications than you may think. It is a huge problem because prisoners who are taking drugs do not take part in the various programmes available to them in the jail and are losing out on that chance. They also created fascinating projects that showed how to save cement and other construction materials, without losing out on quality or strength of the structure. It also argues that the public is now losing out on their return for investment as it is being taken away from them by the government. Synonyms be unable to take advantage of, fail to benefit from 1.1Be beaten in competition or replaced by. （在竞争中）失败；（被）取代 they were disappointed at losing out to Chicago in the playoffs 他们因为在半决赛中输给柏林队而沮丧不已。 Example sentencesExamples In a competitive market, companies that miss the boat on sensible energy efficiency investments will lose out to their more forward-looking competitors. If your business is not appearing on these search engines then you are losing out to your competitors that are looking for what you do. In a round robin competition they lost out by just one ace at the Semi-final stage. Publishers of medical journals should feel encouraged to make the content of their journals available as full text to avoid losing out to their competitors. Meanwhile the Junior Girls suffered a similar fate in their competition losing out also to the eventual winners in the semi-final, this time to a golden goal in extra time. ‘But the fear of losing out in this new competition exists on both sides,’ he declared. That's very similar to the arguments made by labor and farm groups in the U.S. concerned about losing out to competitors. Public sector banks will lose out to competition If supervisors fail to put data on costs, sales, and revenue to good use, their companies will lose out to competitors who do. I was a little disappointed to see them lose out to NeXT. Origin Old English losian ‘perish, destroy’, also ‘become unable to find’, from los ‘loss’. verb.1 phr. phr.v.
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