核心畫面
You can picture 'lost' as the state right after something slips out of your grip and disappears into the world: the road you were on, the keys in your pocket, the thread of an explanation. It is 'lose' frozen in place — the having is over, and now you stand there without the thing, unable to reach back and recover it.
可以想成：lost 就是「東西脫手、消失之後」停格的那一刻。它是 lose（失去）的完成狀態——你本來握著的路、口袋…更多收起
可以想成：lost 就是「東西脫手、消失之後」停格的那一刻。它是 lose（失去）的完成狀態——你本來握著的路、口袋裡的鑰匙、話講到一半的線索，忽然都不在手上了，而且你伸手也抓不回來。整個字的核心畫面，就是「該有的東西不見了，人留在原地接不上」。原始詞典資料9 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。
lostadj/lɒst/
- 1
Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way.
- The children were soon lost in the forest.
- 2
In an unknown location; unable to be found.
- Deep beneath the ocean, the Titanic was lost to the world.
- 3
Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible.
- an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd
- 4
Parted with; no longer held or possessed.
- a lost limb; lost honour
- 5
Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered.
- a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit; no time should be lost
- 6
Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope.
- a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul
- They struck me also as being of surpassing interest as representing, probably with studious accuracy, the last rites of the dead as practised among an utterly lost people, and even then I thought how envious some antiquarian friends of my own at Cambridge would be if ever I found an opportunity of describing these wonderful remains to them.
- 7
Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible.
- lost to shame; lost to all sense of honour
- 8
Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as not to notice external things.
- to be lost in thought
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。