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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, if there is any one up there," replied Pencroft, who began to lose patience, "I will give them a hail, and they must answer."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And so, neighbour,' he added, 'I'll turn my face homewards, leaving my love for Nelly and hoping she may never lose her way again, though her doing so has procured me an honour I didn't expect.'
-- Don't lose time.'
-- If I lose thee too, my dear, I must die!'
-- 'I don't think there's hardly a chance of his really losing it, but carriers are under great temptation to pretend they lose things, no doubt,' said Mrs Nubbles apprehensively, in reference to the first point.
-- How many of the mounds in that old churchyard where she had lately strayed, grew green above the graves of children!And though she thought as a child herself, and did not perhaps sufficiently consider to what a bright and happy existence those who die young are borne, and how in death they lose the pain of seeing others die around them, bearing to the tomb some strong affection of their hearts (which makes the old die many times in one long life), still she thought wisely enough, to draw a plain and easy moral from what she had seen that night, and to store it, deep in her mind.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she avoided him, and Matriena Pavlovna strove not to lose sight of her.
-- She considered him her own, and to lose him would be very painful to her.
-- And she cherished this view above all else in the world, because to change it would be to lose that standing among people which it assured her.
-- And in order not to lose her standing she instinctively clung to that circle which held the same views of life.
-- Seeing, however, that Nekhludoff wished to lead her into another world, she resisted it, feeling that in that other world into which he was luring her she would lose her present standing which gave her confidence and self-respect.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Gnat amused itself meanwhile by humming round and round her head: at last it settled again and remarked, 'I suppose you don't want to lose your name?'
-- I shouldn't like to lose it at all because they'd have to give me another, and it would be almost certain to be an ugly one.
-- But then the fun would be trying to find the creature that had got my old name!That's just like the advertisements, you know, when people lose dogs "answers to the name of 'Dash:' had on a brass collar" just fancy calling everything you met "Alice," till one of them answered!Only they wouldn't answer at all, if they were wise.'
-- What mattered it to her just then that the rushes had begun to fade, and to lose all their scent and beauty, from the very moment that she picked them?
-- 'The dog would lose its temper, wouldn't it?'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She would not, she declared, lose money that belonged to her fatherless boy; "If none of the rest of you dare," she said, "Jim and I dare.
-- There wasn't one of you dared face Bill, and I did it a blind man!And I'm to lose my chance for you!I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit you would catch them still."
-- So now, Livesey, come post; do not lose an hour, if you respect me.
-- Not you!As sure as God sees me, I'd sooner lose my hand.
-- I saw I must lose no time if I were to find the boat that evening.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Commander Farragut would not lose a day nor an hour in scouring the seas in which the animal had been sighted.
-- I am a good swimmer (though without pretending to rival Byron or Edgar Poe, who were masters of the art), and in that plunge I did not lose my presence of mind.
-- I followed it with my eye; saw it lose itself in the vastness of the Pacific, and felt myself drawn with it, when Ned Land and Conseil appeared at the door of the saloon.
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