lose是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 丢失， 迷路， 输掉， 亏本， 失败， 走慢， 使沉湎于，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sledge was still visible, nor did I again lose sight of it except at the moments when for a short time some ice-rock concealed it with its intervening crags.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Geraldhad known poverty, and he could never learn to lose money with good humor or good grace.
-- "That's all you know," said Scarlett, putting out her tongue and refusing to lose her good humor.
-- Why must this calf-like fool intrude his feelingson this particular day when she was so worried she was about to lose her mind?
-- For, win or lose, we lose just the same.
-- Ifonly he would ever lose his temper too, then she would not feel at such a disadvantage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My sister with an exclamation of impatience was going to fly at me,--I had no shadow of defence, for Joe was busy in the forge,--when Mr. Pumblechook interposed with "No!Don't lose your temper.
-- "Don't lose your temper," said Joe.
-- The royal phantom also carried a ghostly manuscript round its truncheon, to which it had the appearance of occasionally referring, and that too, with an air of anxiety and a tendency to lose the place of reference which were suggestive of a state of mortality.
-- When I lose my temper (not that I admit having done so on that occasion), I don't throw glasses."
-- But don't lose your temper.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well,' said the shepherd, 'if you are so fond of her, I will change my cow for your horse; I like to do good to my neighbours, even though I lose by it myself.'
-- When the twelve princesses heard this they laughed heartily; and the eldest said, 'This fellow too 44 Grimms' Fairy Talesmight have done a wiser thing than lose his life in this way!'
-- All this the old king saw: so he went home without being seen; and when the lit-tle goose-girl came back in the evening he called her aside, and asked her why she did so: but she burst into tears, and said, 'That I must not tell you or any man, or I shall lose my life.'
-- The king was sorry that for the sake of one he should lose all his faith-ful servants, wished that he had never set eyes on the tailor, and would willingly have been rid of him again.
-- So he went out and took the maiden aside, and said: 'Tonight when the boy is asleep, go to his bed and plunge this knife into his heart, and bring me his heart and tongue, and if you do not do it, you shall lose your life.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And your friend the secretary, humbly desiring to be heard again, in answer to what the treasurer had objected, concerning the great charge his majesty was at in maintaining you, said, that his excellency, who had the sole disposal of the em-peror's revenue, might easily provide against that evil, by gradually lessening your establishment; by which, for want of sufficient for you would grow weak and faint, and lose your appetite, and consequently, decay, and consume in a few months; neither would the stench of your carcass be then so dangerous, when it should become more than half diminished; and immediately upon your death five or six thousand of his majesty's subjects might, in two or three days, cut your flesh from your bones, take it away by cart-loads, and bury it in distant parts, to prevent infection, leaving the skeleton as a monument of admiration to pos-terity.
-- I made a shift to keep the key in a pocket of my own, fearing Glumdalclitch might lose it.
-- As for him-self, he protested, that although few things delighted him so much as new discoveries in art or in nature, yet he would rather lose half his kingdom, than be privy to such a se-cret; which he commanded me, as I valued any life, never to mention any more.'
-- Where any of these wanted fortunes, I would provide them with convenient lodges round my own estate, and have some of them always at my table; only mingling a few of the most valuable among you mortals, whom length of time would harden me to lose with little or no reluctance, and treat your posterity after the same manner; just as a man diverts himself with the annual succession of pinks and tulips in his garden, without regretting the loss of those which withered the preceding year.
-- The least mis-erable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories; these meet with more 268 Gulliver's Travelspity and assistance, because they want many bad qualities which abound in others.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I must go, you know, whether I like it or not; and I had better go where I can take with me some advantage of your influence, than where I should lose it altogether.
-- Thou mak'st me humbly wishfo' to be more like thee, and fearfo' to lose thee when this life is ower, and a' the muddle cleared awa'.
-- ''Twere a bad job, too, to lose so good a one,' said Stephen.
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