lost是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 失去的，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：
-- I knew not how this consciousness at last glided away from me; but waking in the morning, I shudderingly remembered it all, and for days and weeks and months afterwards I lost myself in confounding attempts to explain the mystery.
-- Three of them ran something like the following, but I do not pretend to quote: SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN TALBOT, Who, at the age of eighteen, was lost overboard, Near the Isle of Desolation, off Patagonia, November 1st, 1836.
-- Her masts cut somewhere on the coast of Japan, where her original ones were lost overboard in a gale her masts stood stiffly up like the spines of the three old kings of Cologne.
-- Was the other one lost by a whale?"
-- I know, too, that ever since he lost his leg last voyage by that accursed whale, he's been a kind of moody desperate moody, and savage sometimes; but that will all pass off.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At such times, he would look constantly round him, for fear of thieves, and would keep slapping all his pockets in turn, to see that he hadn't lost anything, in such a very funny and natural manner, that Oliver laughed till the tears ran down his face.
-- It was lost upon Sikes, who was stooping at the moment to tie the boot-lace which the dog had torn.
-- He remained lost in thought for some minutes; and then, with a heavy sigh, snuffed the candle, and, taking up the book which the Jew had left with him, began to read.
-- Neither his brief consideration, nor its purport, was lost on his companion.
-- cried that discreet lady in a whisper; for the fright was so great, that she had quite lost her voice, 'Mr.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Your picture may be very exact, Louisa,' said Bingley; 'but this was all lost upon me.
-- My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.'
-- The evening conversation, when they were all assembled, had lost much of its animation, and almost all its sense by the absence of Jane and Elizabeth.
-- It had not been very great; he had lost every point; but when Mrs. Phillips began to express her concern thereupon, he assured her with much earnest gravity that it was not of the least importance, that he considered the money as a mere trifle, and begged that she would not make herself uneasy.
-- Lydia talked incessantly of lottery tickets, of the fish she had lost and the fish she had won; and Mr. Collins in describing the civility of Mr. and Mrs. Phillips, protesting that he did not in the least regard his losses at whist, enumerating all the dishes at supper, and repeatedly fearing that he crowded his cousins, had more to say than he could well manage before the car-riage stopped at Longbourn House.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It happened one time, that going a-fishing in a calm morning, a fog rose so thick that, though we were not half a league from the shore, we lost sight of it; and rowing we knew not whither or which way, we laboured all day, and all the next night; and when the morning came we found we had pulled off to sea instead of pulling in for the shore; and that we were at least two leagues from the shore.
-- But I, that was born to be my own destroyer, could no more resist the offer than I could restrain my first- rambling designs when my father' good counsel was lost upon me.
-- We had very good weather, only excessively hot, all the way upon our own coast, till we came to the height of Cape St. Augustino; from whence, keeping further off at sea, we lost sight of land, and steered as if we were bound for the isle Fernando de Noronha, holding our course N.E.
-- It blew very hard all night, and in the morning, when I looked out, behold, no more ship was to be seen!I was a little surprised, but recov-ered myself with the satisfactory reflection that I had lost no time, nor abated any diligence, to get everything out of her that could be useful to me; and that, indeed, there was little left in her that I was able to bring away, if I had had more time.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Don't you wish we had the money Papa lost when we were little, Jo?
-- When Mr. March lost his property in trying to help an unfortunate friend, the two oldest girls begged to be allowed to do something toward their own support, at least.
-- Other friends told the Marches that they had lost all chance of being remembered in the rich old lady's will, but the unworldly Marches only said... 'We can't give up our girls for a dozen fortunes.
-- Up went a handful of soft snow, and the head turned at once, showing a face which lost its listless look in a minute, as the big eyes brightened and the mouth began to smile.
-- she did go in, right up to Mr. Laurence, who looked quite tak-en aback, and held out her hand, saying, with only a small quaver in her voice, 'I came to thank you, sir, for...' But she didn't finish, for he looked so friendly that she forgot her speech and, only remembering that he had lost the little girl he loved, she put both arms round his neck and kissed him.
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