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 lose [lu:z]   添加此单词到默认生词本
vt. 遗失, 损失, 丢失, 使失去, 错过, 浪费, 迷失, 使迷路, 输去, 使沉溺于

vi. 受损失, 失败

[法] 遗失, 丧失, 失败


  1. I lost my wallet yesterday.
    我昨天丢了钱包。
  2. He lost his life in the war.
    他在战争中丧生。


lose
lost
[ verb ]
  1. fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense

  2. <verb.possession>
    She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat
  3. fail to win

  4. <verb.competition>
    We lost the battle but we won the war
  5. suffer the loss of a person through death or removal

  6. <verb.emotion>
    She lost her husband in the war
    The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her
  7. place (something) where one cannot find it again

  8. <verb.contact> mislay misplace
    I misplaced my eyeglasses
  9. miss from one's possessions; lose sight of

  10. <verb.possession>
    I've lost my glasses again!
  11. allow to go out of sight

  12. <verb.perception>
    The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light
  13. fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit

  14. <verb.possession>
    turn a loss
    I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!
    The company turned a loss after the first year
  15. fail to get or obtain

  16. <verb.possession>
    I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad
  17. retreat

  18. <verb.competition>
    drop off fall back fall behind recede
  19. fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind

  20. <verb.perception>
    miss
    I missed that remark
    She missed his point
    We lost part of what he said
  21. be set at a disadvantage

  22. <verb.change>
    suffer
    This author really suffers in translation


Lose \Lose\ (l[=oo]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lost} (l[o^]st; 115)
p. pr. & vb. n. {Losing} (l[=oo]z"[i^]ng).] [OE. losien to
loose, be lost, lose, AS. losian to become loose; akin to OE.
leosen to lose, p. p. loren, lorn, AS. le['o]san, p. p. loren
(in comp.), D. verliezen, G. verlieren, Dan. forlise, Sw.
f["o]rlisa, f["o]rlora, Goth. fraliusan, also to E. loose, a
& v., L. luere to loose, Gr. ly`ein, Skr. l[=u] to cut.
[root]127. Cf. {Analysis}, {Palsy}, {Solve}, {Forlorn},
{Leasing}, {Loose}, {Loss}.]
1. To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by
accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.;
to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or
pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg
by amputation; to lose men in battle.

Fair Venus wept the sad disaster
Of having lost her favorite dove. --Prior.

2. To cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer
diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to
lose one's health.

If the salt hath lost his savor, wherewith shall it
be salted? --Matt. v. 13.

3. Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to
waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the
benefits of instruction.

The unhappy have but hours, and these they lose.
--Dryden.

4. To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to
go astray from; as, to lose one's way.

He hath lost his fellows. --Shak

5. To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on
the ledge.

The woman that deliberates is lost. --Addison.

6. To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the
whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd.

Like following life thro' creatures you dissect,
You lose it in the moment you detect. --Pope.

7. To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence,
to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I
lost a part of what he said.

He shall in no wise lose his reward. --Matt. x. 42.

I fought the battle bravely which I lost,
And lost it but to Macedonians. --Dryden.

8. To cause to part with; to deprive of. [R.]

How should you go about to lose him a wife he loves
with so much passion? --Sir W.
Temple.

9. To prevent from gaining or obtaining.

O false heart! thou hadst almost betrayed me to
eternal flames, and lost me this glory. --Baxter.

{To lose ground}, to fall behind; to suffer gradual loss or
disadvantage.

{To lose heart}, to lose courage; to become timid. ``The
mutineers lost heart.'' --Macaulay.

{To lose one's head}, to be thrown off one's balance; to lose
the use of one's good sense or judgment, through fear,
anger, or other emotion.

In the excitement of such a discovery, many scholars
lost their heads. --Whitney.

{To lose one's self}.
(a) To forget or mistake the bearing of surrounding
objects; as, to lose one's self in a great city.
(b) To have the perceptive and rational power temporarily
suspended; as, we lose ourselves in sleep.

{To lose sight of}.
(a) To cease to see; as, to lose sight of the land.
(b) To overlook; to forget; to fail to perceive; as, he
lost sight of the issue.


Lose \Lose\, v. i.
To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off,
esp. as the result of any kind of contest.

We 'll . . . hear poor rogues
Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,
Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out. --Shak.

  1. Is it true, as he observes, that Israel had "nothing to lose" in the 1967 war because Washington would have rescued it?
  2. Dealers attributed the higher stock market start to dollar selling on a news report that Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party might lose an election for the powerful lower house of Parliament early next year.
  3. We quickly consigned an insurance salesman from Florida to be our "advance man," since he seemed most fit and least likely to lose the boards in the drink as we experimented with different, jerry-rigged configurations.
  4. Do these businesses really want to lose money?
  5. The extra money, at a minimum, would mean that an agent wouldn't lose money on very low-priced tickets; the cost of booking a ticket sometimes exceeds the actual commission on fares of less than $200.
  6. His spokesman suggested that Russia might reconsider its borders with any republic that left the union, a statement that caused a furious reaction in both Kazakhstan and the Ukraine, the two republics that stand to lose the most.
  7. If the economy worsens, the government will lose legitimacy, making its battle against the resistance front that much harder.
  8. One Friday last month he asked about redundancy and was told the pit wanted to lose 15 fitters; six had so far gone. He telephoned his wife, and then, on the spur of the moment, volunteered.
  9. You must not lose complete communication with an enemy because ignorance can cause mistakes," he said.
  10. He did not say how many would lose their jobs and how many would be transferred.
  11. Parents are asked to work with their kids in completing the workbooks _ rehearsing what they should do if they lose their keys, or if someone knocks at the door.
  12. Or they could be overwhelmed and lose by a record margin.
  13. He said it "isn't inconceivable" that some Arrow employees might also lose jobs.
  14. Research may provide more clues to the causes of obesity, but one fact doesn't change: To lose weight and keep it off, you must develop healthy eating and exercise habits for good, the experts say.
  15. "We lose money on those trades," says a Wall Street executive.
  16. Eagle Star said most insurers would now examine such cases and could agree to pay out if they felt they would lose less than by going through an entire repossession. The insurer would still have the right to pursue the borrower for the shortfall.
  17. They also must face the wrath of parents who may lose sons and daughters.
  18. The dispute is developing into one that neither side can afford to lose.
  19. When the athletes learned that playing dice was also an easy way to lose money, some turned to armed robbery, the students said.
  20. Guarantees on Iraqi debt could cost the governments of the West, Japan and the Soviet Union tens of billions of dollars. Some international banks, meanwhile, could lose billions of dollars lent to Kuwait's banks.
  21. The Armed Services Committee report estimates that the U.S. and its allies could initially lose 10 or more planes a day.
  22. West Germany is shaping up as the country with the most to lose if and when Europe becomes a truly common market in 1992.
  23. At least he says he hopes to lose.
  24. The news was interpreted as a fresh signal that the economy was beginning to lose the momentum that has created upward pressure on inflation and interest rates in recent months.
  25. Price increases in the range of 25 percent to 50 percent a month are expected in the first stage of the program, as enterprises lose their subsidies and raise prices to survive.
  26. And even with through traffic, Deputy 92-0 may lose her effectiveness as word spreads.
  27. Mills has admitted male graduate students since the 1930s, when the program began, said Lindsey Beaben, a Mills spokeswoman who noted that schools can lose federal funds if they exclude graduate students because of race, sex or national origin.
  28. He says: 'We lose some each year and gain some; we are about 10 down on last year.' He adds: 'There are 122,243 unique flight numbers each day.
  29. Opinion polls which increasingly show that a French 'no' vote is a real possibility increases the strain on weak ERM members; if the monetary union project finally unravels, the markets may lose faith altogether in current ERM parities.
  30. Congressional talks on a final clean air bill began Friday as a White House aide said the president remains strongly opposed to giving financial aid to workers who lose jobs because of tougher pollution requirements.
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