■ lose no time in + -ing

意思究竟是“不在某事上面浪费时间”（根本不做某事），还是“不浪费时间，马上动手做某事”？这里牵涉到后面的动词究竟是瞬时体还是延续体的问题。如果是“不在某事上面浪费时间”，“某事”就应该是延续的；如果是“不浪费时间，马上动手做某事”，“动手做某事”就应该是瞬时的。

• Don't lose your time in reading these books.这些书你就别浪费时间看了。
• ... all I bring back from my journey to the scientists is limited to this advice: Don't do as I have done, don't lose your time in seeking that which does not exist! (Jehan Georges Vibert, The Science of Painting, p.53)…我的拜访科学家之行，唯一带回来的，只不过是这样一个忠告：我干过的，你们别干了，别浪费时间去寻找实不存在的东西了。

但是，lose no time in + -ing 中，-ing 的动词如果是瞬时体的，整个意思就是“不浪费时间，马上动手做某事”。

• They lost no time in provoking a schism.他们马上就挑起了分裂（不是“他们没有在挑起分裂上浪费时间”）。
• I've taken my resolution, so I advise you to lose no time in taking yours. (George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, p.119)我已经下了决心，所以我劝你也赶快下决心。

参见 waste no time in + -ing 条。

• this is
• this...that
• those
• threaten
• through
• thunder
• thus
• till
• time
• times
• tired from
• tired from 与 tired of
• tired of
• to
• to
• to be one's to
• to do it
• to do it 与 do so 简化为 to
• toe
• to itself
• toll
• tomato
• tongue
• to not
• too