When I told you to 'get lost' I didn't expect to be taken literally.

我叫你“滚开”，并没让你按字面意思来理解呀。

《牛津词典》

It might seem impossible to get lost in the modern world with its ubiquity of digital maps, but there is more than one way to be lost.

在这个到处都有电子地图的现代世界，迷路恐怕不太可能发生了，但我们还是有不只一种会导致迷失的方法。

youdao

"Our country has been spending too much money and run up a deficit, and we have got to get control," he says, otherwise jobs will be lost and the economy stagnate.

他说道：“国家花了很多钱并用光了我们的积蓄，到了该对此进行控制的时候了，另外还有失业和经济停滞等问题。”

youdao

But you must be careful. It is easy to get lost in the waves of moving sand especially during sandstorms.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

(Speaking) Bdi says although they can't exactly get back the time lost as a result of these technical delays, other steps in the process can be accelerated to ensure that the vote happens on schedule.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

They've got a huge pack and are physical with it, the Boks can front up to any pack in the world and if we do not get a forward platform we will be lost.

BBC: South Africa are probably the best in the world at the moment

Ironically, industry observers believe Apple's success itself may eventually drive some developers to competing stores where their apps would be less likely to get lost in the crowd and have a greater chance of standing out.

CNN: New iPhone 3GS heats up smartphone wars

The idea is that even if some packets get lost amid the noise, enough will slip through to be reassembled as a coherent signal at the destination.

FORBES: Technology