It links a community with its past, with its heritage, and so if one stops speaking his language, he loses a part of himself.

方言维系着一个族群的过去，绑定着一个族群的遗产，如果一个人不再用自己的方言，他就部分地迷失了自己。

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Lord Zhuang said, "If I give a man wine and make him so drunk that he loses his manners, that is my own fault."

楚庄王一听，马上说：“赐人饮酒弄到他酒醉失礼，这是寡人的过失。”

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So just to give an example, if he goes through the hard pass and you defend the hard pass, he loses one of those battalions going over the mountains and the other one because he meets you.

举个例子吧,如果入侵者与你在崎岖之途上狭路相逢,他在翻越山岭时损失一营,与你交战再损失一营

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The joker's goal is to sow enough doubt about the vote so that if he loses the recount he can attract public support to challenge the final result in court.

WSJ: Al Franken's Minnesota

Increasingly Wall Street firms are deferring a portion of annual bonuses in restricted stock over several years so that an employee loses a portion of bonuses if he leaves.

FORBES: Whose Rolodex is it, anyway?

Mr Roh said that if he loses the referendum, he will resign on or around February 15th, so that a fresh presidential vote can be held at the same time as parliamentary elections, already scheduled for April 15th.

ECONOMIST: The president calls a referendum on his fitness for the job