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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is wise counsel, and we will act upon it without loss of time.
-- In going on board the DUNCAN again they would not bring despair with them, and Lady Helena and Mary Grant would not have to mourn the irrevocable loss of Captain Grant.
-- Glenarvan, as usual, always the peacemaker, interfered in the debate, and said:"Whether the loss of ferocious animals is to be regretted or not, in a scientific point of view, there is no help for it now; we must be content to do without them.
-- He was quite at a loss how to show his recognition of the disinterestedness of this noble guide, when a happy thought struck him.
-- Paddy O'Moore consented, though he would regret the loss of his excellent servant.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Setting aside the whole grim story of Sir Charles's death, we had a line of inexplicable incidents all within the limits of two days, which included the receipt of the printed letter, the black-bearded spy in the hansom, the loss of the new brown boot, the loss of the old black boot, and now the return of the new brown boot.
-- And yet, if it were not for the loss of the charming companionship of the boys, I could rejoice over my own misfortune, for, with my strong tastes for bot-any and zoology, I find an unlimited field of work here, and my sister is as devoted to Nature as I am.
-- I was at a loss what to say or what to do, and before I had made up my mind he picked up his cane and was gone.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'In half an hour or so the loss was discovered, and the servants were being put under examination.
-- But though my town business is, of course, most pressing, still I determined not to go away until I had seen you, and had a clear understanding with you upon certain points; and that without loss of time.
-- When I woke up at half-past seven and tore my hair in despair for my loss and carelessness, I awoke the general, who was sleeping the sleep of innocence near me.
-- 'Of course you have your own lodging at Pavlofsk at at your daughter's house,' began the prince, quite at a loss what to say.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Are you to keep your own prize, while I sit tamely under my loss and give up the girl at your bidding?
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The house and the garden, with all the objects surrounding them, were now become familiar, and the ordinary pursuits which had given to Norland half its charms were engaged in again with far greater enjoyment than Norland had been able to afford, since the loss of their father.
-- "My own loss is great," he continued, "in being obliged to leave so agreeable a party; but I am the more concerned, as I fear my presence is necessary to gain your admittance at Whitwell."
-- I am much concerned to find there was anything in my behaviour last night that did not meet your approbation; and though I am quite at a loss to discover in what point I could be so unfortunate as to offend you, I entreat your forgiveness of what I can assure you to have been perfectly unintentional.
-- She paused over it for some time with indignant astonishment; then read it again and again; but every perusal only served to increase her abhorrence of the man, and so bitter were her feelings against him, that she dared not trust herself to speak, lest she might wound Marianne still deeper by treating their disengagement, not as a loss to her of any possible good but as an escape from the worst and most irremediable of all evils, a connection, for life, with an unprincipled man, as a deliverance the most real, a blessing the most important.
-- Is your loss such as leaves no opening for consolation?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His loss seemed all the more bitter now that he needed her most.
-- It is the unintellectual miser who sweats blood at the loss of a hundred dollars.
-- Dissolution meant the loss of his thousand dollars, and he could not save another thousand in the time.
-- With this loss and ordinary expenses, so much had already gone.
-- "I didn't do that thing right the other day," he thought, referring to his loss of sixty dollars.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, then, pretty soon all hands got to talking about the diseased again, and how good he was, and what a loss he was, and all that; and before long a big iron-jawed man worked himself in there from outside, and stood a-listening and looking, and not saying any- thing; and nobody saying anything to him either, because the king was talking and they was all busy listening.
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