The loss this time is the death of the family's mother.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

And the relay had closed on the poor creature, crushing it to death. The defense department didn't care about the loss of a moth.

可怜的虫子碾死了，国防部门并不关心,一个虫子的死活。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So my death occurs at star two,loss of bodily function.

我的死亡就发生在星号二，生理功消失时。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In his brief remarks, the president made clear he sees the death of Ted Kennedy as a personal loss.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

Modern poetry arises, in Eliot's case, with the death of God, with the loss of a theological justification for life, with a sense of disenchantment, a sense of depletion, depletion of meaning and value.

在艾略特而言，现代诗歌的兴起，与对上帝信仰的消失，以及对生活不再在理论使其合理化，及人们的觉醒，对意义和价值的耗尽是相伴相随的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Michael Jackson was simply great." Agalu says his death is a loss for everyone who loves pop music.

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

Since what we had here was simultaneously losing both the ordinary body functioning and the special personality functioning, which loss was the crucial one in terms of defining the moment of my death?

我们这里同时失去了,平常的生理功能和特殊的人格功能，失去哪个是定义死亡时刻的关键呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"The death of five brave soldiers in a single incident is a terrible and tragic loss and I want to pay tribute, as the whole House will, to their professionalism and to their courage and service,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.04