These are really financial bets on whether some asset will gain or lose value.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

Conversely, if he goes on the hard pass and you defend the easy pass, he's going to lose one of those battalions.

相反,如果他选择崎岖之途,而你却防守平坦之路,那么他仅仅损失一个营的兵力

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

This is a little paradise, a paradise on the verge of being lost as the shades lose their leaves.

这是一个微小的天堂，一个随着叶子的凋落,即将失去的天堂。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"With all my heart, I urge you to pull up an anchor and make full sail before we lose the tide and are left stranded on the beach, exposed to the coming storms."

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

On the other hand, the critic Michael Wood has pointed out that Nabokov didn't lose Russian. He didn't lose it on the way while he was riding the boat; he decided to stop writing in it.

另一方面，批评家，迈克尔·伍德指出,纳博科夫没有完全失去俄语，当他划船的时候,他意识到这点，他决定停止写作。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

While there is advice aplenty on how to lose pounds or kilograms, a new study focuses on middle aged and older women who maintain normal body weight, or BMI (Body Mass Index) and do not diet.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

It does appear that it's harder to lose the weight below the waist, but there is some mixed research on that as well.

但腰部以下的脂肪似乎更难减掉,关于这点也有一些相应的研究

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The Liberal Democratic Party suffered an embarrassing defeat in the Tokyo Metropolitan Election a few weeks ago, and it is expected to lose its half-century hold on Japanese politics in the August 30 general election.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

You have two tickets, $400 worth, and on the way to the concert you lose the tickets.

你买了两张，共值400美元，然而在你去音乐会的路上,你把两张票弄丢了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So if anybody on either side of them runs, that person would simply lose.

任意一个在两边的人要参选,都会以失败告终

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Now there is an irony there, because without the myth, we lose out on a great many worth to survive With myth, taken literally, we are self-fullfilling the past.

现在又多了一层讽刺的涵义，因为没了神话，很多人会觉得失去了活下去的价值,而要是我们按字面意思理解神话，我们就能填补过去的空白。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

It used to be believed, and it's the sort of thing I would-- when I taught this course many years ago I would lecture on-- that neurons do not grow back once you lose them.

人们曾经相信,我在很多年前,教授这门课的时候,会告诉大家,一旦你的神经元受损,它们便无法恢复

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Probably never that easy but really, you're just not going to lose, and the truth of the matter is that hoplites beat non-hoplites in all battles that are fought on flat land in battles that the Greeks fight in.

也许不是那么的容易,不过总会胜利的,事实上,在所有希腊人打的平原战中,方阵部队无一例外地击败了非方阵部队

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Maybe on average institutions lose thirty basis points, but it's kind of Lake Wobegon, where we all believe that we're better than average, so we're going to overcome that thirty basis points -that's not such a big hurdle.

可能平均每个机构都会落后30个基点,这就有点像沃比冈湖效应,大家都觉得自己能高过市场平均水平,30个基点会赶上的,不算什么大的差距

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

If anybody on either side of them chose to run, they would lose.

任意一个在两边的人要参选,都会失败

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选