loss是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 丧失， 遗失； 损失， 损耗， 亏损； 失败，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Who's the worse for the loss of a few things like these.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 115 Confused by the emotion of the day, and feeling his be-ing there with this Double of coarse deportment, to be like a dream, Charles Darnay was at a loss how to answer; finally, answered not at all.
-- Besides that, his loss of himself grew out of it.
-- If a picture of the chateau as it was to be a very few years hence, and of fifty like it as they too were to be a very few years hence, could have been shown to him that night, he might have been at a loss to claim his own from the ghastly, fire-charred, plunder-wrecked rains.
-- He was at a loss how to answer, until he remembered having spoken of a condition.
-- The Lord above knows what the compromising consequences would be to numbers of people, if some of our documents were seized or destroyed; and they might be, at any time, you know, for who can say that Paris is not set afire to-day, or sacked to-morrow!Now, a judicious selection from these with the least possible delay, and the burying of them, or otherwise getting of them out of harm's way, is within the power (without loss of precious time) of scarcely any one but myself, if any one.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She addressed the attache, who was at a loss now what to begin upon.
-- If he had been asked whether he liked or didn't like the peasants, Konstantin Levin would have been absolutely at a loss what to reply.
-- Moreover, although he had lived so long in the closest relations with the peasants, as farmer and arbitrator, and what was more, as adviser (the peasants trusted him, and for thirty miles round they would come to ask his advice), he had no definite views of "the people," and would have been as much at a loss to answer the question whether he knew "the people" as the question whether he liked them.
-- One dress, Tanya's, which the English governess had undertaken, cost Darya Alexandrovna much loss of temper.
-- he thought; "how unnatural and false it is!And the children feel it so: Learning French and unlearning sincerity," he thought to himself, unaware that Darya Alexandrovna had thought all that over twenty times already, and yet, even at the cost of some loss of sincerity, believed it necessary to teach her children French in that way.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These dates were inscribed in an itinerary divided into columns, indicating the month, the day of the month, and the day for the stipulated and actual arrivals at each principal point Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, and London from the 2nd of October to the 21st of December; and giving a space for setting down the gain made or the loss suffered on arrival at each locality.
-- IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS ONLY TOO GLAD TO GET OFF WITH THE LOSS OF HIS SHOESEverybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
-- For twenty-four hours Fix watched the station with feverish anxiety; at last he was rewarded by seeing Mr. Fogg and Passepartout arrive, accompanied by a young woman, whose presence he was wholly at a loss to explain.
-- Owing to the defective construction of the Rangoon, however, unusual precautions became necessary in unfavourable weather; but the loss of time which resulted from this cause, while it nearly drove Passepartout out of his senses, did not seem to affect his master in the least.
-- He never changed countenance for an instant, though a delay of twenty hours, by making him too late for the Yokohama boat, would almost inevitably cause the loss of the wager.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Most of them grunted, "The Old Man is erupting again," and forgot him, but one ex-major went out every evening to confer with serious ladies who wore distinguished frocks, who sobbed over "the loss of spiritual and intellectual horse-power through lack of co-ordination," and who went home in limousines.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everyone was talking, shouting, exclaiming; the coachman seemed at a loss and kept repeat-ing: 'What a misfortune!Good Lord, what a misfortune!'
-- 'Perhaps those who have involuntarily caused the acci-dent will agree to compensate you, at least for the loss of his earnings.'
-- You know it's a loss to the Crown,' Porfiry Petrovitch quoted gaily.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We all on us feel the loss of her, bless ye!'
-- But he lookedsuch a very obdurate butcher as he stood scraping the great blockin the shop, and moreover, his appearance was so little improvedby the loss of a front tooth which I had knocked out, that I thoughtit best to make no advances.
-- I had never been brought up to any profession, and atfirst I was at a loss what to do for myself.
-- Heridea was my refuge in disappointment and distress, and madesome amends to me, even for the loss of my friend.
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