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■ lose一望而知是第四类动词。Lose something to somebody 是把什么东西输给了某个对手。 - We have lost many clients to our competitors.我们许多顾客输了给竞争者。
- We're losing our best teachers to industry.我们正在被工业抢去最好的教师。
但是,也可以说 lose something to something,后一个 something 是失去前一个 something 的原因,这个 to 是中国人不大习惯的。 - He'd lost his parents to an airliner crash at Chicago.他的父母在芝加哥的一次空难中丧生(这里仿佛“空难”是一个对手,自己在对抗中输了,父母输到了对手手中)。
- He has lost his hair and beard to chemotherapy.他因为化疗而头发胡须脱落。
- ... the number of jobs actually lost to outsourcing is small...(The New York Times, OP-ED, Nov. 27, 2007, A31)…真正由于外包而流失的工作机会,数目不大…
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