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  • Conjugation : past  lost ; ing  losing
  • Derivatives : adj  losable
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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

lose [luːz]
  1. 1. vt. [+keys] [ pen etc] (mislay) 丢失
    I lost my keys.
    我把钥匙丢了。
  2. 2. vt. [+contest] [ fight] [ argument] (not win) 输
  3. 3. vt. [+job] [ place] (be dismissed from) 丢掉
    He lost his place in the team.
    丢掉了在队里的位置
  4. 4. vt. [+relative] [ wife etc] (through death) 失去
    He had just lost his wife.
    刚刚失去妻子
  5. 5. vt. [+time] [ opportunity] (waste) 浪费
  6. 6. vt. [商] [+money] 亏损
    The company was losing a million pounds a week.
    公司一个星期亏损100万英镑。
  7. 7. vt. [+blood] [ tooth] [ leg] (through injury,disease) 失掉
  8. 8. vt. [+voice] [ sight etc] 丧失
  9. 9. vt. [+confidence] [ control etc] (run out of) 丧失
  10. 10. vt. [+pursuers] (shake off) 摆脱
    He managed to lose his pursuers in the maze of streets.
    繁杂街道上,他竭力摆脱了跟踪者。
  11. 11. vi. (in competition,argument) 输
    to lose o.s. in sth
    沉湎于某事
    to lose weight
    减重
    to lose no time in doing sth
    马上着手做某事
    Bill lost no time in telling me about his idea.
    比尔赶紧和我讲他的想法
    to lose sight of sth
    不见某物
  12. 12. vi. (forget) 忽略某事

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

lose [luːz]
  1. 1. vt. 失掉不能维持不能控制
  2. 2. vt. 输掉失败
  3. 3. vt. 丧失失去
  4. 4. vt. 错放,错置
  5. 5. vt. 丢失遗失
  6. 6. verb 亏本亏损
  7. 7. vt. 错过,未抓住
  8. 8. vt. 逃避躲避
  9. 9. vt. 听见,没弄懂
  10. 10. vi. 遭受损失
  11. 11. vt. 走慢……时间
  12. 12. vt. [Spoken] 去除摆脱,甩开
  13. 13. vt. 浪费
  14. 14. vt. 使失去
  15. 15. vt. 使沉迷于,使沉湎
  16. 16. vt. [Spoken] 使弄不懂
  17. 17. noun [Abbreviation] Line-of-Sight-Expendables,瞄准线消耗品(如铅笔纸张等)

Collins English-English Dictionary

lose [luːz]
  1. 1. vb [mainly tr] to part with or come to be without, as through theft, accident, negligence, etc
  2. 2. vb to fail to keep or maintain
    to lose one's balance
  3. 3. vb to suffer the loss or deprivation of
    to lose a parent
  4. 4. vb to cease to have or possess
  5. 5. vb to fail to get or make use of
    to lose a chance
  6. 6. vb [also intr] to fail to gain or win (a contest, game, etc)
    to lose the match
  7. 7. vb to fail to see, hear, perceive, or understand
    I lost the gist of his speech
  8. 8. vb to waste
    to lose money gambling
  9. 9. vb to wander from so as to be unable to find
    to lose one's way
  10. 10. vb to cause the loss of
    his delay lost him the battle
  11. 11. vb to allow to go astray or out of sight
    we lost him in the crowd
  12. 12. vb [usually passive] to absorb or engross
    he was lost in contemplation
  13. 13. vb [usually passive] to cause the death or destruction of
    two men were lost in the attack
  14. 14. vb to outdistance or elude
    he soon lost his pursuers
  15. 15. vi. [intr] to decrease or depreciate in value or effectiveness
    poetry always loses in translation
  16. 16. vi. [also intr] (of a timepiece) to run slow (by a specified amount)
    the clock loses ten minutes every day
  17. 17. vi. (of a physician) to fail to sustain the life of (a patient)
  18. 18. vi. (of a woman) to fail to give birth to (a viable baby), esp as the result of a miscarriage
  19. 19. vi. [motor racing] [Slang] to lose control of (the car), as on a bend
    he lost it going into Woodcote
  20. 20. vi. [Etymology] Old English losian to perish; related to Old English -leosan as in forleosan to forfeit. Compare loose

Examples

Lose weight too quickly and you will lose muscle tissue as well as fat.
减肥太快会使你的肌肉组织和脂肪一起消失。
bound to lose
注定要失败的
to lose one's footing
失足
to lose heart
丧失勇气(或信心);灰心,丧气
to lose one's keys
丢失了钥匙

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