lose
verb uk/luːz/ us/luːz/ lost | lost
(NOT HAVE)
A2 [ T ]丢失，遗失
to no longer have something because you do not know where it is
I've lost my ticket. 我丢了票。
He's always losing his car keys. 他总是丢汽车钥匙。
A2 [ T ]失去
to have something or someone taken away from you
At least 600 staff will lose their jobs if the factory closes. 如果公司关闭，至少将有600名员工失去工作。
He lost his leg in a car accident. 他在一场车祸中失去了一条腿。
She lost her mother (= her mother died) last year. 去年她母亲去世了。
B2 [ T ]失去，丧失（某种感觉）
to stop feeling something
to lose confidence/faith 丧失信心／信念
I lost interest halfway through the book. 这本书我刚读了一半就没了兴趣。
He kept on crying and I lost my patience. 他哭个没完，让我失去了耐心。
B1 [ T ]失去，损失，减少
to have less of something than you had before
I'm trying to lose weight. 我正在努力减肥。
He's losing his hair. 他在掉头发。
She lost a lot of blood in the accident. 她在事故中流了很多血。
to lose your memory/sight 失忆／失明
B2 [ T ]浪费（时间）
If you lose time, you waste it.
Four million hours were lost last year through stress-related illnesses. 去年与工作压力相关的疾病导致了400万小时工作时间的损失。
We lost valuable time stuck in traffic. 堵车浪费了我们宝贵的时间。
[ T ]（钟表）走慢，变慢
If a clock loses time, it goes more slowly than it should.
My watch loses ten minutes every day. 我的手表每天慢10分钟。
[ T ] informal放弃;甩掉;摆脱
to get rid of something
Lose the belt and let's see how the dress looks. 把带子解下来，再看看裙子怎么样。
lose money, dollars, pounds, etc.C1 亏损
A business that is losing money is spending more money than it is receiving.
Banks will lose millions of pounds because of new legislation. 银行将因新法规的实施而亏损数百万英镑。
- More examples
- Anyone who gambles on the stock exchange has to be prepared to lose money.
- "I'm afraid I've lost that wallet you gave me." "Well, never mind, I can easily buy you another one."
- I lost my notes so I had to make up the speech as I went along.
- He hasn't written to me recently - perhaps he's lost my address.
- He moaned with pain before losing consciousness.
(BE DEFEATED)
B1 [ I or T ]输掉（比赛）；败北，失利
to fail to succeed in a game, competition, etc.
If we lose this game, we're out of the championship. 我们如果输掉这场比赛就会在锦标赛中出局。
They're losing 3–1. 他们目前以3-1落后于对手。
They lost to Cincinnati. 他们输给了辛辛那提队。
Everyone hates losing an argument. 谁都不愿意在辩论中输掉。
They hadn't lost an election in 15 years. 在15年当中他们从未在选举中失利。
- More examples
- I won the first game, and then lost the next two.
- Our team lost when we scored an own goal late in the second half.
- They boasted that they had never lost a single game.
- He was bitterly disappointed when he lost the leadership contest.
- She says that she will resign if she loses the vote.
Idioms More idioms
be losing itidiom informal 开始发疯
to start to become crazy
That's the third time this week I've lost my keys - I think I must be losing it. 这已是本周我第3次丢钥匙了——我真要发疯了。
lose your headidiom informalC1 失去理智；情绪失控
to lose control and not act in a calm way
He usually stays quite calm in meetings but this time he just lost his head. 开会时他通常都很冷静，但这次他却很冲动。
lose your heart to someoneidiom literary 爱上（某人）
to fall in love with someone
lose your lifeidiom B2 丧生，丢掉性命
to die suddenly because of an accident or violent event
Many people lost their lives in the floods. 许多人在洪水中丧生。
lose your mindidiom informal 精神失常;失去理智
to become mentally ill, or to start behaving in a silly or strange way
You just spent all that money on a pair of shoes? Have you completely lost your mind? 你把钱都花在这双鞋子上了？你一点儿理智都没有了吗？
lose your ragidiom UK informal 发火，发怒
to suddenly become very angry
He said one too many stupid things and I just lost my rag. 他的蠢话说得也太离谱了，我终于忍不住发了火。
lose your shirtidiom US informal （尤指因赌博而）输得精光
to lose a lot of money, especially as a result of a bet (= money risked when you guess the result of something)
lose your touchidiom 技艺大不如前，做某事的能力下降
If you lose your touch, you can no longer do something as well as you could before.
It's good to see their goalkeeper's not losing his touch. 好在他们的守门员状态很好。
lose your wayidiom 迷路，走失
to become lost
lose groundidiom C1 失宠;失去支持
to become less popular or to be given less support
Do you agree that left-wing politics are losing ground among the working classes? 你是否同意左翼政治观点正在失去工人阶级的支持？
lose heartidiom C2 灰心，失去信心
to stop believing that you can succeed
Don't lose heart, there'll be plenty more chances for promotion. 别灰心，还会有很多晋升的机会。
lose itidiom informal 失去理智；突然大叫（或哭、笑）
to stop being able to control your emotions and suddenly start to shout, cry, or laugh
I'd been trying so hard to stay calm but in the end I just lost it. 我拼命想保持冷静，但最终还是没有控制住自己。
lose sight of somethingidiom C2 忘记，忽略
to forget about an important idea or fact because you are thinking too much about other things
I'm worried that we're losing sight of our original objectives. 我担心我们会淡忘我们的初衷。
lose sleep over/about somethingidiom C2 担心，忧虑
to worry about something
I wouldn't lose any sleep over what happened. 事已至此，我才不担心呢。
lose the plotidiom UK informal 行为怪异;举止愚蠢
to no longer be able to act normally or understand what is happening
I can't believe Stuart did that - he must be losing the plot. 我无法相信这是斯图尔特干的——他肯定是犯傻了。
lose trackidiom 不能跟上…的进展；失去与…的联系；不记得…
→ lose track
you've got nothing to loseidiom informal (also what have you got to lose?) 不会有任何损失；不会有任何坏处
used to say that you cannot make things worse, or cause any disadvantages for yourself by doing a particular thing
Why don't you take the job? You've got nothing to lose. 你为什么不接受这个工作？这对你不会有任何坏处。
Phrasal verb
lose out 处于劣势；吃亏
to not have an advantage that other people have
The new tax means that the vast majority of working people will lose out. 征收新税意味着大多数正在工作的人将会受损失。