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Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

失去 [shīqù]
  1. 1. lose; fail; blow; waste
    失去知觉
    lose consciousness
    失去信心
    lose confidence
    失去时效
    be no longer effective; cease to be in force
    失去控制
    get out of hand; get out of control
  2. 2. noun loss

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

失去 [shīqù]
  1. 1. 丢掉;失掉
    失去记忆
    失去依靠。

Examples

我们哀痛失去了一位亲密的战友。
We lament the death of a very close friend of ours.
你要是再迟疑不决,就失去机会了。
If you remain undecided, you'll let the chance slip.
夺回失去的时间
make up for lost time
失去理性
lose one's reason
失去联系
lose contact
失去耐心
lose one's patience; be out of patience
失去平衡
lose one's balance; be in a state of imbalance
失去信心
lose confidence

Collocations

失去记忆力
to lose one's memory
失去平衡
to lose balance
失去的一切
to have lost everything
刚刚失去
just lost
痛苦地失去
to painfully lose something

Word Decomposition


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nciku Note

失去 and 遗失

失去 and 遗失
shīqù and yíshī

失去 is mostly applied to abstract things; 遗失 is mostly applied to concrete things.
(1) 他失去了她的信任。
(2) 这次试验的失败使他失去了信心。
(3) 哪位同学在图书馆遗失手机一部?
(4) 他把钱包遗失在商场里了。

遗失 is somewhat literal and can be used in formal writing.

“失去”多用于抽象事物,而“遗失”多用于具体事物。
“遗失”略书面化,所以更多的用于正式场合。

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