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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On this she left him, still furious at the loss of her that had been taken from him.
-- Cruel Jove gave me his solemn promise that I should sack the city of Priam before returning, but he has played me false, and is now bid-ding me go ingloriously back to Argos with the loss of much people.
-- But they now took no part in the war, inasmuch as there was no one to marshal them; for Achilles stayed by his ships, furious about the loss of the girl Briseis, whom he had taken from Lyrnessus at his own great peril, when he had sacked Lyrnessus and Thebe, and had overthrown Mynes and Epi-strophus, sons of king Evenor, son of Selepus.
-- But his people, though they felt his loss were not leaderless, for Medon, the bastard son of Oileus by Rhene, set them in array.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I appreciated my loss of sympathy, but I put it down to the general inanity of things.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- DO not propose to add anything to what has already I been written concerning the loss of the 'Lady Vain.'
-- Neither the captain nor the mate would be-lieve my story, judging that solitude and danger had made me mad; and fearing their opinion might be that of others, I refrained from telling my adventure further, and professed to recall nothing that had happened to me between the loss of the 'Lady Vain' and the time when I was picked up again, the space of a year.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 1 'Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared: The worst is wordly loss thou canst unfold: Say, is my kingdom lost?'
-- The loss of both his daughters might bring the aged man to his grave, and where would then be the satisfaction of Le Renard?'
-- But he pur-chased this moment of fierce gratification with the loss of the fatal opportunity.
-- After which he continued, in a more audible though scarcely more intelligible language: 'After the loss of the boy I turned upon the Hurons, as you may judge.
-- Indeed, so very distinct and intelligible were the devices of the quadruped, that even the most experienced observer would have been at a loss to account for its actions, until the moment when the party entered the forest, when the whole would have been explained, by seeing the entire animal issue from the lodge, uncasing, by the act, the grave features of Chingachgook from his mask of fur.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She made up her mind to profit by her acquaintance with so many writers, and without loss of time began to learn shorthand and typewriting.
-- Tough Bill had no patience with an obstinacy which could only result in loss to himself, and on the last occasion he flung both Strickland and Captain Nichols out of his house without more ado.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But a sailor is never at a loss when there is a question of cables or ropes, and Pencroft rapidly twisted a cord, a few fathoms long, made of dry creepers.
-- It was a grave loss in their circumstances, and for the time irreparable.
-- The loss of the box was certainly to be regretted, but the boy was still sure of procuring fire in some way or other.
-- The reporter retired into a dark corner after having shortly noted down the occurrences of the day; the first appearance of this new land, the loss of their leader, the exploration of the coast, the incident of the matches, etc.
-- He did not, he would not believe in the loss of Cyrus Harding.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could form no comprehension of his character, unless he were one of those miserable wretches who, having made gain the sole end and object of their lives and having succeeded in amassing great riches, are constantly tortured by the dread of poverty, and beset by fears of loss and ruin.
-- Many things he had said which I had been at a loss to understand, were quite reconcilable with the idea thus presented to me, and at length I concluded that beyond all doubt he was one of this unhappy race.
-- What has it ever brought me but anxious days and sleepless nights; but loss of health and peace of mind, and gain of feebleness and sorrow!'
-- She wept bitterly for the loss of this little creature until the idea occurred to her she did not know how, or why, it came into her head that it might, by some means, fall into the hands of Kit who would keep it for her sake, and think, perhaps, that she had left it behind in the hope that he might have it, and as an assurance that she was grateful to him.
-- He was anxious that they should leave the house without a minute's loss of time, and was soon ready.
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