When the soil is dry, more moisture is lost from the plant.

土壤干燥时，植物就会失去更多的水分。

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Because of this idea, he lost interest in this kind of plant, then he gave up watering the rose.

因为这个想法，他对这种植物失去了兴趣，然后他放弃了给玫瑰浇水。

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Lighting accounts for about 7% of the total electricity consumed in the US. Since lighting is often far removed from the power source—such as the distance from a power plant to street lamps on a remote highway—a lot of energy is lost during transmission.

在美国，照明约占总耗电量的7%。由于照明通常远离电源——例如从发电厂到偏远公路上的路灯——因此大量的能源在传输过程中会损失掉。

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On the South Side of Chicago, I worked with families who had lost jobs and lost hope when the local steel plant closed.

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Apart from the severe human rights violations, Plant says,the profits pocketed by traffickers represent lost tax revenues to the States, as well as lost earnings stolen from the victims of forced labor and trafficking.

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But BAE Systems says up to 450 jobs are likely to be lost at the plant.

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It will lead to 378 jobs being lost at the plant when it closes next year.

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Roughly 70 percent of electrical power generated at a plant is lost in transmission lines.

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