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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had wandered a long way; and when they looked to see which way they should go home, they found themselves at a loss to know what path to take.
-- Then he wandered quite blind about the forest, ate nothing but roots and berries, and did naught but lament and weep over the loss of his dearest wife.
-- Not long after this there was a great bustle in the coun-try; for the king's daughter had been carried off by a mighty dragon, and the king mourned over his loss day and night, and made it known that whoever brought her back to him should have her for a wife.
-- Sorry as he was to see his wish so fulfilled, he did not know how what was done could be undone, and comforted himself as well as he could for the loss of his seven sons with his dear little daughter, who soon became stronger and every day more beautiful.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All crimes against the state, are punished here with the utmost severity; but, if the person accused makes his innocence plainly to appear upon his trial, the accuser is immediately put to an ignominious death; and out of his goods or lands the innocent person is quadruply recompensed for the loss of his time, for the danger he underwent, for the hardship of 65his imprisonment, and for all the charges he has been at in making his defence; or, if that fund be deficient, it is largely supplied by the crown.
-- That the loss of your eyes would be no impediment to your bodily strength, by which you might still be useful to his majesty; that blind-ness is an addition to courage, by concealing dangers from us; that the fear you had for your eyes, was the greatest dif-ficulty in bringing over the enemy's fleet, and it would be sufficient for you to see by the eyes of the ministers, since 81the greatest princes do no more.
-- 'But his imperial majesty, fully determined against cap-ital punishment, was graciously pleased to say, that since the council thought the loss of your eyes too easy a cen-sure, some other way may be inflicted hereafter.
-- 'In three days your friend the secretary will be direct-ed to come to your house, and read before you the articles of impeachment; and then to signify the great lenity and favour of his majesty and council, whereby you are only condemned to the loss of your eyes, which his majesty does not question you will gratefully and humbly submit to; and twenty of his majesty's surgeons will attend, in order to see the operation well performed, by discharging very sharp-pointed arrows into the balls of your eyes, as you lie on the ground.
-- Whereupon, I returned immediately towards the city, and desired his imperial maj-esty to lend me twenty of the tallest vessels he had left, after the loss of his fleet, and three thousand seamen, under the command of his vice-admiral.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Gradgrind seemed rather at a loss to understand the last four words; replying, 'How, matter?
-- He spoke in a subdued and troubled voice, very different from his usual dictatorial manner; and was often at a loss for words.
-- He was so much at a loss at that place, that he stopped altogether.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If it had ever served in former times as a kind of funnel through which passed the eruptive masses vomited by Sneffels, I was at a loss to explain how it had left no mark.
-- "A raft," I cried, incredulously, "but down here a raft is as impossible of construction as a vessel--and I am at a loss to imagine--" "My good Harry--if you were to listen instead of talking so much, you would hear," said my uncle, waxing a little impatient.
-- All this is utter loss of time.
-- Of course I was at a loss to understand.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was at a loss for an answer.
-- She resisted it as far as she could, for it was the loss of herself to herself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'As to her,' pursued her father, 'the sudden loss of her little picture and playfellow, and her early association with that mystery in which we all have our equal share, but which is not often so forcibly presented to a child, has necessarily had some influence on her character.
-- 'She is so little used to go out alone,' said the debtor, 'that I am at a loss to think how she will ever make her way here, if she walks.'
-- 'Doctor,' said the turnkey, 'here's a gentleman's wife in want of you without a minute's loss of time!'
-- This was such a new point of view that Arthur Clennam found himself at a loss how to receive it.
-- He was at a loss to understand what she meant; and by expressing as much in his looks, elicited her explanation.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed a small loss to others, but to Jo it was a dreadful calamity, and she felt that it never could be made up to her.
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