Soon,people began to use the word hedging to describe steps that could be taken to protect against financial loss.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

The decay of Christian belief and practice is not a loss but rather an opportunity for poetry, in Crane.

基督教信仰和践行的衰败,在克莱恩看来，并不是损失，反而是诗歌新生的机会。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

This is the story of the empowerment of the poet, his empowerment through his experience of a terrible loss.

这讲述的是诗人的力量，他因一次痛苦的失去而获得的力量。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Still, it was a great victory for the Whig Party and a sharply felt loss for the opposing party, the Democrats.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

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

The recently announced World Alzheimer Report places a shocking financial cost on care linked to dementia, or loss of mental abilities.

VOA: special.2010.10.05

It's conventional--that is to say, it belongs in the public sphere to all of us, and there's perhaps a certain sort of Romantic loss in that.

其实这很常见，语言是属于大家的，虽然这让语言少了一些浪漫的意味。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It is a story of sadness and loss, of the failure of an old Southern family to which the brothers belong.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

We lost. Loss always, I think, almost always, especially in modern history, has led to longer, deeper, troubled memories.

我们输了,失败一直是,在我看来,几乎一直是,特别是在近代历史上,造成南方人长久深刻而苦痛的记忆的根源

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

However it was unclear to researchers whether unemployment caused poor health, or whether poor health led to job loss.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

Now, people are studying obese subjects because there're weight loss programs, like the one we had, and the subjects are available.

现在人们开始以肥胖者为实验对象,因为有许多减肥的项目,肥胖的实验对象是较容易找到的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Lincoln hoped his words might ease the sorrow over the loss of these men and lift the spirit of the nation.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

and the important point is that when people anticipate loss, we didn't see the same scale of activation in this region.

重要的是，当人们预计会亏钱时，我们在这一区域并没有看到之前的那种活动。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

In the past, numbers in the financial records of a company were written in red ink to show a loss.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

Somebody with a severe and profound loss of mental faculties-- the deficit will be shown correspondingly in her brain.

对于严重丧失心理官能的人来说,我们可以看到她在大脑相应部位的损伤

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The wreck of the Lady Elgin remains the worst loss of life on open water in the Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

When the body breaks some more, you get the loss of biological or B-functioning, and then the body dies.

身体继续损坏，身体功能也会开始消失，肉体就死亡了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Among all workers, the possibility of someone reporting fair or poor health rose forty-four percent after job loss and workplace closure.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

He responds to this grievous loss privately by taking it on himself, by seeking to master it himself, and specifically as a worker.

他私下里对失去孩子的痛苦的反应,是自己承受，努力地自己承受，尤其是作为一名工人。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Some people are found to have cataracts, abnormal growths on the eye that can lead to loss of eyesight.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

After his mother died, and so one theory is the role in his life is his mother and his loss of her.

他母亲去世后，有一种理论说,他的母亲和母亲的死在他生活中起了重要作用。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

The report said the company was still in the red, but was able to cut its loss from the year before.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

It comes from personal experience that raises a question at least about whether all values can be translated without loss into utilitarian terms.

是亲身见闻所引起的疑问,是否所有的价值都可以完好无损地,转换为功利主义的形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

She says this monument is a quiet place for people to come to terms with loss caused by the war.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

They said, would you sign a contract that if you had this loss the contract would pay you a certain amount of money?

他们是这样说的，你会签署一个合约,上面约定了，当你发生损失,你会得到合约中约定的赔偿金？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Professor Drinkwater says farmers need to think about ways to solve some of the causes of nutrient loss from agriculture.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

At the same time there's been a concomitant loss of innocence.

与此同时，他失去了原有的天真。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But,to be on the safe side, he also places a smaller bet on the other team, to reduce a possible loss.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

You can become dehydrated and die just as a result of the loss of water there, because of your body's natural response to the infection.

就会脱水,而失水的后果就是死亡,这是你身体对于这种感染的自然反应

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

I will then make sales but each of those sales I'm making a loss on.

这样我才能售出产品,但每售出一件产品,我就承担一份亏损

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选