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单词 long-lost
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long-lost

adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
You use long-lost to describe someone or something that you have not seen for a long time.
For me it was like meeting a long-lost sister. We talked, and talked, and talked.
...finding a long-lost sixth century manuscript.

long-lost in British English

(ˈlɒŋlɒst)
adjective
1. 
not seen for a long time
the arrival of their long-lost cousins
For me it was like meeting a long-lost sister.
2. 
lost for a long time
finding a long-lost sixth century manuscript

Examples of 'long-lost' in a sentence
long-lost

You might have thought they were long-lost friends.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
You may have discovered some long-lost friends.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The pair greeted each other like long-lost friends.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
I'M in love with my long-lost best friend.
The Sun (2011)
How should a man react if an apparent stranger says he is a long-lost friend?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He greeted me as he would a long-lost friend.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Finding it after all these years is like finding a long-lost friend.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
WHAT'S the best way to get in touch with long-lost relatives?
The Sun (2010)
The spooky clan meets up with long-lost relatives.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
He could be a long-lost relative.
The Sun (2013)
She soon begins to piece together the puzzle and suspects that he could be the long-lost son of the family who own the house.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Is she a long-lost daughter, or a new girlfriend?
The Sun (2006)
Her parents welcomed their long-lost daughter home, where she recovered by recording songs in their basement.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Hundreds of Britons have expressed their dislike of total strangers who treat them as long-lost friends.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Lucky Jupiter contacts the sun and there could be good cash news when a long-lost relative reappears.
The Sun (2009)
No, not pictures of him with another long-lost son.
The Sun (2006)
The storyline involves a spy who is on the run with his long-lost brother, a former football hooligan.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
I'd love to turn up as her the in daughter long-lost episodes.
The Sun (2011)
A long-lost daughter pitches up, only to be roundly ignored.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
After the first phone call, a number of exchanges with the detective began to convince the family that their long-lost relative had been found.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)

In other languages
long-lost

British English: long-lost ADJECTIVE
You use long-lost to describe someone or something that you have not seen for a long time.
For me it was like meeting a long-lost sister. We talked, and talked, and talked.
  • American English: long-lost
  • Brazilian Portuguese: perdido há muito tempo
  • Chinese: 很久没见的
  • European Spanish: desaparecido hace mucho tiempo
  • French: perdu de vue
  • German: verloren geglaubt
  • Italian: perduto da tempo
  • Japanese: 長い間音信不通の
  • Korean: 오랫동안 보지 못한
  • European Portuguese: perdido há muito tempo
  • Latin American Spanish: desaparecido hace mucho tiempo

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