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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A gentleman who was so good as to bring Nell home the other night when she lost her way, coming from your house.'
-- The child's voice was lost in sobs as she dropped upon the old man's neck; nor did she weep alone.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Formerly he used to earn a competence, but had lost his customers, and was now given to drink, spending everything that came into his hands.
-- Indeed, there was no necessity of abandoning these habits, since he had lost the strength of conviction as well as the resolution, the vanity and the desire to astonish people that he had possessed in his youth.
-- Behind the old lady, beaming in his wide-open vest, and with a self-sufficient smile on his face, came that same famous lawyer who so managed the case that the lady with the large flowers lost all her property, while his shrewd client, who paid him ten thousand rubles, received over a hundred thousand.
-- She became silent, as if she had lost the thread of the story, or thought of something else.
-- The prosecutor spoke at great length, endeavoring on the one hand to remember all those wise sayings which he had prepared for the occasion, and on the other, most important, hand, not to stop for a moment, but to make his speech flow uninterruptedly for an hour and a quarte r. He stopped only once, for a long time swallowing his saliva, but he immediately mastered himself and made up for the lost time by a greater flow of eloquence.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What if in this interval the race had lost its manliness, and had developed into something inhuman, unsympathetic, and overwhelmingly powerful?
-- Once I fell headlong and cut my face; I lost no time in stanching the blood, but jumped up and ran on, with a warm trickle down my cheek and chin.
-- Evidently, I thought, this tendency had increased till Industry had gradually lost its birthright in the sky.
-- I came out of this age of ours, this ripe prime of the human race, when Fear does not paralyse and mystery has lost its terrors.
-- With that refuge as a base, I could face this strange world with some of that confidence I had lost in realising to what creatures night by night I lay exposed.
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：
-- To her surprise, she lost sight of her in a moment, and found herself walking in at the front-door again.
-- Alice attended to all these directions, and explained, as well as she could, that she had lost her way.
-- Alice stood looking after it, almost ready to cry with vexation at having lost her dear little fellow-traveller so suddenly.
-- 'And I lost the comb yesterday.'
-- I think it's short for "from home" meaning that they'd lost their way, you know.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah, Bill, Bill, we have seen a sight of times, us two, since I lost them two talons," holding up his mutilated hand.
-- I never wasted good money of mine, nor lost it neither; and I'll trick 'em again.
-- He stopped a little from the inn, and raising his voice in an odd sing-song, addressed the air in front of him, "Will any kind friend inform a poor blind man, who has lost the precious sight of his eyes in the gracious defence of his native country, England and God bless King George! where or in what part of this country he may now be?"
-- I found he was an old sailor, kept a public-house, knew all the seafaring men in Bristol, had lost his health ashore, and wanted a good berth as cook to get to sea again.
-- Long John Silver, he is called, and has lost a leg; but that I regarded as a recommendation, since he lost it in his country's service, under the immortal Hawke.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The 6th of July, about three o'clock in the afternoon, the Abraham Lincoln, at fifteen miles to the south, doubled the solitary island, this lost rock at the extremity of the American continent, to which some Dutch sailors gave the name of their native town, Cape Horn.
-- Officers with their night glasses scoured the growing darkness: sometimes the ocean sparkled under the rays of the moon, which darted between two clouds, then all trace of light was lost in the darkness.
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