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Picture something that was in your hand or your life — and now it is gone, slipped out of your grasp, and you cannot get it back or even find where it went. Almost every meaning of lose is a version of this single picture: you had it, now you don't. What slips away changes — an object, a game, money, a person, your way, your temper — but the loss is always the same shape.
可以想成原本在你手裡、在你生活裡的東西——一轉眼沒了，從掌心滑掉，你抓不回來，甚至找不到它去了哪。lose 幾乎每個…更多收起
可以想成原本在你手裡、在你生活裡的東西——一轉眼沒了，從掌心滑掉，你抓不回來，甚至找不到它去了哪。lose 幾乎每個用法都是同一個畫面的變形：本來有，現在沒了。滑掉的東西不同（一件物品、一場比賽、錢、一個人、方向、脾氣），但「失去」的形狀始終一樣。原始詞典資料18 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Losename
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A surname from German.
loseverb詞源 1/luːz/
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To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
- If you lose that ten-pound note, you'll be sorry.
- He lost his hearing in the explosion.
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To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
- Johnny lost a tooth, but kept it for the tooth fairy.
- He lost his spleen in a car wreck.
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To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
- I’ve lost five pounds this week.
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To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
- She lost all her sons in the war.
- I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ’Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
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To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
- Frank had lost $500 staying in Vegas.
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To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
- Users who engage in disruptive behavior may lose their accounts.
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To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.
- I lost my way in the forest.
- He hath lost his fellows.
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To become a defeated competitor in (a game, competition, trial, etc).
- We lost the football match.
- You just lost The Game.
另外 8 個記錄的用法
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To be defeated (in a game, competition, contest, etc.)
- The team scored four goals but still managed to lose.
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To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
- The policeman lost the robber he was chasing.
- Mission control lost the satellite as its signal died down.
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To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.
- lose the cops
- We managed to lose our pursuers in the forest.
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To cease exhibiting; to overcome (a behavior or emotion).
- I can see Mickie getting hot, I'm about to grab his arm, hold him back, say, Whoa, whoa, Mick, not here, it ain't worth it what happened inside just now. But I don't need to because Mickie loses his anger, starts smiling at ponytail, then melodramatically starts looking around at the men and women on the street going in and out of the courthouse.
- Her attitude was so bad my mother wound up telling her, “You know we really don't have to be standing here talking to you, so you can lose the attitude or you can leave.
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informalTo shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
- When we get into the building, please lose the hat.
- Lose that extra space on the left.
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Of a clock, to run slower than expected.
- My watch loses five minutes a week.
- It's already 5:30? My watch must have lost a few minutes.
- 15
To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.
- O false heart! thou hadst almost betrayed me to eternal flames, and lost me this glory.
- a. 1699, Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, On the Excesses of Grief How should you go about to lose him a wife he loves with so much passion?
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To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.
- She moved out of hearing and I lost the end of the sentence.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。