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unable to find your way; not knowing where you are 迷路的；迷失的 We always get lost in London. 我们在伦敦老是迷路。 🔊🔊 We're completely lost. 我们完全迷路了。 🔊🔊 We got lost in the woods. 我们在森林中迷路了。 I was tired, hungry and hopelessly lost. 我累了，饿了，绝望地迷路了。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
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that cannot be found or brought back 失去的；丢失的；丧失的；无法恢复的 I'm still looking for that lost file. 我还在找那份丢失的档案。 🔊🔊 a lost cat/dog/pet 丢失的猫/狗/宠物 Your invitation must have got lost in the post. 您的邀请必须在帖子中丢失了。 Report all instances of lost or stolen cards immediately. 立即报告所有丢失或失窃的卡实例。 Along with flight delays, lost luggage is the most common cause for passenger complaint. 随着航班延误，行李丢失是引起乘客投诉的最常见原因。 Without a form of backup, this data would be lost forever. 没有备份的形式，这些数据将永远丢失。
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that cannot be obtained; that cannot be found or created again 得不到的；无法再找到的；无法再造的 Piracy is costing film studios millions in lost revenues. 盗版使电影制片厂损失了数百万美元的收入。 The strike cost them thousands of pounds in lost business. 罢工使他们失去了几千英镑的生意。 🔊🔊 lost sales/profits/earnings 销售/利润/收益损失 She's trying to recapture her lost youth. 她在努力追回逝去的青春。 🔊🔊 a poignant and bittersweet tale of lost love 失去爱的凄美苦乐参半的故事 He regretted the lost (= wasted) opportunity to apologize to her. 他后悔错过了向她道歉的机会。 🔊🔊 the lost art of letter-writing 迷失的写信艺术
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unable to deal successfully with a particular situation 不知所措；一筹莫展 I felt so lost after my mother died. 我母亲去世后我觉得茫然无措。 🔊🔊 - lost without somebody/something
We would be lost without your help. 我们没有你的帮助就会一筹莫展。 🔊🔊 He's a lost soul (= a person who does not seem to know what to do, and seems unhappy). 他是个迷惘的人。 🔊🔊
Extra ExamplesTopics Difficulty and failureb2I felt lost without my watch. 没有手表，我有点儿不知所措。 She looked rather lost and lonely, standing in a corner by herself. 她独自站在角落里，看上去茫然而孤独。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
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unable to understand something because it is too complicated 弄不懂；困惑 They spoke so quickly I just got lost. 他们说得太快，我跟不上了。 🔊🔊 Hang on a minute—I'm lost. 等一下，我没弄明白。 🔊🔊 I was a little lost at first but quickly caught on to what was happening in this elaborate series. 起初我有些迷茫，但很快就了解了这个精心制作的系列中正在发生的事情。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
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Idioms
all is not lost
there is still some hope of making a bad situation better 还有一线希望 All is not lost—we still haven’t tried the banks for a loan. 一切都没有丢失-我们仍然没有尝试向银行贷款。
be lost for words
to be so surprised, confused, etc. that you do not know what to say （非常惊讶、困惑等而）不知说什么才好
be lost in something
to be giving all your attention to something so that you do not notice what is happening around you 全神贯注；沉浸于 to be lost in thought 陷入沉思
be lost on somebody
be lost to the world
to be giving all your attention to something so that you do not notice what is happening around you 全神贯注；沉浸于 When he’s listening to music he’s lost to the world. 当他听音乐时，他已经迷失了世界。
get lost
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a rude way of telling somebody to go away, or of refusing something （让人走开或拒绝某事的不礼貌说法）滚开，别来烦我 Tell him to get lost. 叫他滚。 ‘Lend us the car, won’t you?’ ‘Get lost!’ “把车借给我们，不是吗？” '走开！'
give somebody up for lost
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to stop expecting to find somebody alive 认为某人没有生还的可能；认定某人已死
make up for lost time
to do something quickly or very often because you wish you had started doing it sooner （加快或加紧做某事以）弥补失去的时间 I’ll have to work hard now to make up for lost time. 我现在必须努力工作以弥补失去的时间。
there’s little/no love lost between A and B