| 单词 | lose |
| 释义 | lose (luːz ) Word forms: loses , losing , lost 1. verb B1 If you lose a contest, a fight, or an argument, you do not succeed because someone does better than you and defeats you. They lost the Italian Cup Final. [VERB noun] The government lost the argument over the pace of reform. [VERB noun] The Vietnam conflict ultimately was lost. [VERB noun] No one likes to be on the losing side. [VERB-ing] Synonyms: be defeated, be beaten, lose out, be worsted 2. verb A2 If you lose something, you do not know where it is, for example because you have forgotten where you put it. I lost my keys. [VERB noun] I had to go back for my checkup; they'd lost my X-rays. [VERB noun] Synonyms: mislay, miss, drop, forget 3. verb B1 You say that you lose something when you no longer have it because it has been taken away from you or destroyed. I lost my job when the company moved to another state. [VERB noun] He lost his licence for six months. [VERB noun] She was terrified they'd lose their home. [VERB noun] Synonyms: forfeit, miss, fail, yield 4. verb B2 If someone loses a quality, characteristic, attitude, or belief, they no longer have it. He lost all sense of reason. [VERB noun] The government had lost all credibility. [VERB noun] He had lost his desire to live. [VERB noun] 5. verb B2 If you lose an ability, you stop having that ability because of something such as an accident. They lost their ability to hear. [VERB noun] He had lost the use of his legs. [VERB noun] 6. verb If someone or something loses heat, their temperature becomes lower. Babies lose heat much faster than adults. [VERB noun] A lot of body heat is lost through the scalp. [VERB noun] 7. verb B1+ If you lose blood or fluid from your body, it leaves your body so that you have less of it. The victim suffered a dreadful injury and lost a lot of blood. [VERB noun] During fever a large quantity of fluid is lost in perspiration. [VERB noun] 8. verb B1 If you lose weight, you become less heavy, and usually look thinner. I have lost a lot of weight. [VERB noun] Martha was able to lose 25 pounds. [VERB noun] 9. verb B1+ If you lose a part of your body, it is cut off in an operation or in an accident. He lost a foot when he was struck by a train. [VERB noun] 10. verb B2 If someone loses their life, they die. ...the ferry disaster in 1987, in which 192 people lost their lives. [VERB noun] Hundreds of lives were lost in fighting. [be VERB-ed] 11. verb B1+ If you lose a close relative or friend, they die. My Grandma lost her brother in the war. [VERB noun] 12. verb [usually passive] B2 If things are lost, they are destroyed in a disaster. ...the famous Nanjing pottery that was lost in a shipwreck off the coast of China. [be VERB-ed] 13. verb B2 If you lose time, something slows you down so that you do not make as much progress as you hoped. They claim that police lost valuable time in the early part of the investigation. [VERB noun] Six hours were lost in all. [be VERB-ed] 14. verb B2 If you lose an opportunity, you do not take advantage of it. If you don't do it soon you're going to lose the opportunity. [VERB noun] They did not lose the opportunity to say what they thought of events. [VERB noun to-infinitive] ...a lost opportunity. [VERB-ed] 15. verb If you lose yourself in something or if you are lost in it, you give a lot of attention to it and do not think about anything else. Michael held on to her arm, losing himself in the music. [V pron-refl + in] He was lost in the contemplation of the landscape. [be VERB-ed + in] 16. verb If a business loses money, it earns less money than it spends, and is therefore in debt. [business] His shops stand to lose millions of pounds. [VERB noun] $1 billion a year may be lost. [VERB noun] Synonyms: waste, consume, squander, drain 17. verb If something loses you a contest or loses you something that you had, it causes you to fail or to no longer have what you had. My own stupidity lost me the match. [VERB noun noun] His economic mismanagement has lost him the support of the general public. [VERB noun noun] 18. See also lost 19. have nothing to lose/much to lose phrase [VERB inflects] If you say that you have nothing to lose, you mean that you will not suffer if your action is unsuccessful. If you say that you have much to lose, you mean that you may suffer if your action is unsuccessful. They say they have nothing to lose and will continue protesting. Both countries have much to lose if there is a war. 20. lose it phrase If someone loses it, they become extremely angry or upset. [informal] I completely lost it. I went mad, berserk. 21. lose it phrase [VERB inflects] If you say that someone is losing it, you mean that they are becoming crazy. [informal] I'm afraid he's really lost it. 22. lose no opportunity phrase [VERB inflects, oft PHRASE to-infinitive] If you say that someone loses no opportunity to do or say a particular thing, you are emphasizing that they do it or say it whenever it is possible. [emphasis] The President has lost no opportunity to capitalise on his new position. 23. lose no time phrase [VERB inflects, usu PHR in -ing] If you say that someone loses no time in doing something, you are emphasizing that they act quickly in order to benefit from a situation. [emphasis] Officials have lost no time in expressing their concern and grief over this incident. Francine lost no time in defending herself. 24. lose one's way phrase If you lose your way, you become lost when you are trying to go somewhere. The men lost their way in a sandstorm. 25. lose one's way phrase [VERB inflects] If you say that someone loses their way, you think they no longer have a clear idea of what they want to do or achieve. For a while the artist completely lost his way. If we cannot understand that there's an issue of principle here, then we have lost our way. 26. to lose your balance phrase B2 If you keep your balance, for example when standing in a moving vehicle, you remain steady and do not fall over. If you lose your balance, you become unsteady and fall over. She was holding onto the rail to keep her balance. He swung around, almost losing his balance. 27. to lose the battle but win the war phrase If you say that someone has lost the battle, but won the war, you mean that although they have been defeated in a small conflict they have won a larger, more important one of which it was a part. If you say that someone has won the battle but lost the war, you mean that they have won the small conflict but lost the larger one. The strikers may have won the battle, but they lost the war. 28. to lose contact phrase B1+ If you lose contact with someone who you have been friendly with, you no longer see them, speak to them, or write to them. Though they all live nearby, I lost contact with them really quickly. Mother and son lost contact when Nicholas was in his early twenties. 29. to lose your cool phrase If you keep your cool in a difficult situation, you manage to remain calm. If you lose your cool, you get angry or upset. [informal] She kept her cool and managed to get herself out of the ordeal. 30. to lose face uncountable noun If you lose face, you do something which makes you appear weak and makes people respect or admire you less. If you do something in order to save face, you do it in order to avoid appearing weak and losing people's respect or admiration. England doesn't want a war but it doesn't want to lose face. To cancel the airport would mean a loss of face for the present governor. She claimed they'd been in love, but I sensed she was only saying this to save face. 31. to lose your grip phrase If you lose your grip, you become less efficient and less confident, and less able to deal with things. 32. to lose your head phrase If you keep your head, you remain calm in a difficult situation. If you lose your head, you panic or do not remain calm in a difficult situation. She was able to keep her head and not panic. She lost her head and started screaming at me. Synonyms: stay calm, stay cool, remain unruffled, keep your shirt on [informal] 33. to lose heart phrase If you lose heart, you become sad and depressed and are no longer interested in something, especially because it is not progressing as you would like. He appealed to his compatriots not to lose heart. Synonyms: give up, despair, lose hope, become despondent 34. to lose your mind phrase If you say that someone is losing their mind, you mean that they are becoming mad. Sometimes I feel I'm losing my mind. 35. to lose your nerve phrase If you lose your nerve, you suddenly panic and become too afraid to do something that you were about to do. The bomber had lost his nerve and fled. 36. to lose the plot phrase If someone loses the plot, they become confused and do not know what they should do. [informal] The Tories have lost the plot on law and order. 37. to lose sight of phrase If you lose sight of an important aspect of something, you no longer pay attention to it because you are worrying about less important things. In some cases, U.S. industry has lost sight of customer needs in designing products. We shouldn't lose sight of the fact that education is important for its own sake. 38. to lose your temper phrase B2 If you lose your temper, you become so angry that you shout at someone or show in some other way that you are no longer in control of yourself. I've never seen him get cross or lose his temper. I lost my temper and banged my book down on the desk. 39. to lose touch phrase B2 If you lose touch with someone, you gradually stop writing, phoning, or visiting them. In my job one tends to lose touch with friends. [+ with] We lost touch after that. 40. to lose track of phrase If you lose track of someone or something, you no longer know where they are or what is happening. You become so deeply absorbed in an activity that you lose track of time. It's so easy to lose track of who's playing who and when. Phrasal verbs: lose out phrasal verb If you lose out, you suffer a loss or disadvantage because you have not succeeded in what you were doing. We both lost out. [VERB PARTICLE] Laura lost out to Tom. [VERB PARTICLE + to] Women have lost out in this new pay flexibility. [V P + in] Egypt has lost out on revenues from the Suez Canal. [VERB PARTICLE + on] Quotations: You cannot lose what you never had Idioms: lose your heart to someone [literary] to fall in love with someone Don't lose your heart to him too soon because he could just be filling in time with you. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers lose heart to start to feel discouraged or to lose interest in something, usually because things are not progressing in the way that you hoped I suppose I'm less optimistic than I was at first. This disease seems to recur so often you begin to lose heart. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers lose your head to panic and not remain calm in a difficult situation He warned the party not to lose its head, saying that it was not a `time for panic'. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers lose ground to lose some of the power or advantage that you had previously The United States lost more ground in its trade balance with other countries during the third quarter, running up the biggest trade deficit so far this year. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers lose your grip to lose control over a situation The opposition feel that the president has lost his grip on the country. to become less efficient and less confident, and less able to deal with things He wondered if perhaps he was getting old and losing his grip. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers lose face to be made to look foolish or to do something which damages your reputation Perhaps the FDA did not want to lose face by reversing its position. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers lose your edge to no longer have all the advantages and special skills that you had in the past Its staff disagrees with criticisms that their magazine is out of date or has lost its edge. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers lose your cool to suddenly get angry and behave in a bad-tempered or uncontrolled way At this I lost my cool and shouted `for goodness sake, stop!' Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers lose the plot [journalism] to become confused and not know what you should do I am so ashamed of myself. I have no one to talk to, I think I am just losing the plot. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers lose your rag [British] to suddenly lose your temper with someone and get very angry Everyone said Wright did well simply because he didn't lose his rag with anyone. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers lose your shirt [mainly British] to lose all your money on a bad investment or bet If you play cards with these guys, you can lose your shirt. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers lose sight of something to forget or ignore an important aspect of something because you have other things to think about As so often happened, Peter, Tommy and Henry had totally lost sight of their real objective. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers not lose any sleep over something to not worry about something at all I'd like to have a little more money – who wouldn't – but I won't lose any sleep over it. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers lose it [informal] to become extremely angry or upset I completely lost it. I went mad, berserk. I was shouting and swearing. to become unable to do something you are usually able to do He walked on stage, looked out into the audience and just lost it. He forgot the words and started to make up completely different ones. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers lose track of someone or something to no longer know where someone or something is or what is happening to them You may wonder how the administrators of this fund can lose track of £20 million meant to help the poorest citizens. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers lose your marbles [informal] to start to forget things and be confused At 83 I have not lost my marbles and my memory is, thank God, as clear as it ever was. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: lose a match Your play goes from bad to worse, and you eventually lose the match. Christianity Today In the next game he lost three match points, and he went on to lose the match. Times, Sunday Times It was gutting to lose a match where we did so well in the first half and were the better team for long spells. Times, Sunday Times He lost the point, the game and the following four games to lose the match. Times, Sunday Times It's a measure of the team seeing how disappointed the guys were to lose that match. The Sun In a 12-round fight you can probably afford to lose a round here or there. The Sun In place of money and betting, the players who lose a round would remove an article of clothing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The player gets bonus points for voluntarily not using this choice, applied whether they win or lose that round. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If a player grabs a pen despite not having four of a kind, they lose the round. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Whoever ends up on their side loses the round. Times, Sunday Times He played the remaining holes in four over par to lose the tournament. Times, Sunday Times He's 20-1 with the same firm to lead after the third round but lose the tournament. The Sun But the prices lose the tournament points. The Sun They are in decline because they are afraid to lose a tournament that many people have been telling them was wrapped up (hands up guiltily here) 12 months ago. Times, Sunday Times So far, the age-group sides, who have yet to lose a tournament game this year, have been bold. Times, Sunday Times Make the action too subtle, and you lose momentum. Times, Sunday Times If you lose momentum at this point, you won't get the lift you need to complete the rotations. Times, Sunday Times But people get momentum and start pushing up, while you lose momentum - like we have. The Sun If only the second act didn't lose momentum, sputtering away like a bad revue. Times, Sunday Times Without it venues can swiftly lose momentum both artistically and as engines of social and economic change, as happened with several early lottery-funded projects. Times, Sunday Times Much of the world's debt stock guarantees that investors will lose money. Times,Sunday Times As they cannot cut deposit rates below zero, they lose money in a negative rate world. Times,Sunday Times But if, like most private investors, you hold gilts through a fund that buys and sells bonds on a regular basis, you could lose money. Times, Sunday Times If people can't afford to lose money over five years they should avoid shares, it's as simple as that. Times, Sunday Times Both prime minister and chancellor have been reticent in offering guarantees that taxpayers will not lose money. Times, Sunday Times How to lose narrowly in the last minute, against all the odds? Times, Sunday Times He turned the county from a team that tended to lose narrowly into one that won consistently. Times, Sunday Times He dominated the second half of the bout but lost narrowly on points. Times, Sunday Times We lost narrowly in spectacular fashion - reversing fast ... don't ask. The Sun Despite losing narrowly, he gave a terrific account of himself, to the astonishment of the spectators. Times, Sunday Times Nerve cells are damaged and vision can be lost permanently. Times, Sunday Times Most of the bags were restored to their owners within two days, but one in 2,000 was lost permanently. Times, Sunday Times Silt and other eroded materials piled up on the land and had to be removed, and some of the farmland was lost permanently. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Unless archived, older versions of a website can not be viewed and may be lost permanently. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When renewal registration was not made within the statutory time limit copyright expired at the end of its first term and protection was lost permanently. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are also eyeopening facts about crisps, almonds, the genius of porridge and how three portions of yogurt a day can help you lose weight. Times, Sunday Times Not only can fat keep you slim, he argues, but it can also help you to lose weight. Times, Sunday Times When you get a high percentage of calories from fat, you seem to increase the number of calories you can consume, yet still lose weight. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 输, 输, 丢失 Japanese: なくす, 負ける, ･･･をなくす |
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