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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Flask, dancing up and down "What a hump Oh, do pile on the beef lays like a log!Oh!my lads, do spring slap-jacks and quahogs for supper, you know, my lads baked clams and muffins oh, do, do, spring, he's a hundred barreller don't lose him now don't oh, don't! see that Yarman Oh, won't ye pull for your duff, my lads such a sog!such a sogger!Don't ye love sperm?
-- It became imperative to lance the flying whale, or be content to lose him.
-- We can't afford to lose whales by the likes of you; a whale would sell for thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Run to Mr. Bumble, Noah, and tell him to come here directly, and not to lose a minute; never mind your cap!Make haste!You can hold a knife to that black eye, as you run along.
-- He had come a long way though, and should lose a great deal of time by doing so.
-- 'If you don't take pocket-handkechers and watches,' said the Dodger, reducing his conversation to the level of Oliver's capacity, 'some other cove will; so that the coves that lose 'em will be all the worse, and you'll be all the worse, too, and nobody half a ha'p'orth the better, except the chaps wot gets them--and you've just as good a right to them as they have.'
-- 'And yet,' said the old man, dropping his hands on his knees, 'it's a sad thing, my dear, to lose so much when we had set our hearts upon it.'
-- Their looks convict 'em when they get into trouble, and I lose 'em all.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But I can assure you,' she added, 'that Lizzy does not lose much by not suiting HIS fancy; for he is a most disagree-able, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing.
-- If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark.
-- 'Dear Sir, 'The disagreement subsisting between yourself and my late honoured father always gave me much uneasiness, and since I have had the misfortune to lose him, I have frequent-ly wished to heal the breach; but for some time I was kept back by my own doubts, fearing lest it might seem disre-spectful to his memory for me to be on good terms with anyone with whom it had always pleased him to be at vari-ance. 'There, Mrs.
-- Certain it is, that the living became vacant two years ago, exactly as I was of an age to hold it, and that it was given to another man; and no less certain is it, that I cannot accuse myself of having really done anything to deserve to lose it.
-- Not to appear to disgrace his family, to degen-erate from the popular qualities, or lose the influence of the Pemberley House, is a powerful motive.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was game indeed to us, but this was no food; and I was very sorry to lose three charges of powder and shot upon a creature that was good for nothing to us.
-- I consulted several things in my situation, which I found would he proper for me: 1st, health and fresh water, I just now mentioned; 2ndly, shelter from the heat of the sun; 3rdly, security from ravenous creatures, whether man or beast; 4thly, a view to the sea, that if God sent any ship in sight, I might not lose any advantage for my deliverance, of which I was not willing to banish all my expectation yet.
-- After I had been there about ten or twelve days, it came into my thoughts that I should lose my reckoning of time for want of books, and pen and ink, and should even forget the Sabbath days; but to prevent this, I cut with my knife upon a large post, in capital letters - and making it into a great cross, I set it up on the shore where I first landed - 'I came on shore here on the 30th September 1659.'
-- Some days after this, and after I had been on board the ship, and got all that I could out of her, yet I could not for-bear getting up to the top of a little mountain and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship; then fancy at a vast dis-tance I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and then after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.
-- I found presently it flew up into my head violently; but I fell into a sound sleep, and waked no more till, by the sun, it must necessarily be near three o'clock in the afternoon the next day - nay, to this hour I am partly of opinion that I slept all the next day and night, and till almost three the day af-ter; for otherwise I know not how I should lose a day out of my reckoning in the days of the week, as it appeared some years after I had done; for if I had lost it by crossing and re-crossing the line, I should have lost more than one day; but certainly I lost a day in my account, and never knew which way.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall not lose you so soon, and Edward will have greater opportunity of improving that natural taste for your favourite pursuit which must be so indispensably necessary to your future felicity.
-- "I cannot afford to lose ONE hour.
-- CHAPTER 27"If this open weather holds much longer," said Mrs. Jennings, when they met at breakfast the following morning, "Sir John will not like leaving Barton next week; 'tis a sad thing for sportsmen to lose a day's pleasure.
-- Elinor, for her sister's sake, could not press the subject farther, and she hoped it was not required of her for Willoughby's; since, though Marianne might lose much, he could gain very little by the enforcement of the real truth.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You didn't lose any time, did you?"
-- He entered, expecting to indulge in an evening of lightsome frolic, and then lose track of the newcomer forever.
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