Butler lost by just two points to Duke, which for years has had one of the country's most successful basketball programs.

VOA: special.2010.04.10

And it wouldn't be another twenty-two years after that until Milton actually published Paradise Lost.

直到22年后,弥尔顿才真正出版《失乐园》

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He didn't even begin to fulfill what we can think of as his epic promise until he was nearly fifty years old, until he had actually lost the use of his eyes, until he could no longer read, and until he could no longer use a pen to write.

但真正开始实行他要写史诗的愿望的时候,弥尔顿已经将近50岁了，那是他已经几乎,丧失了视力，不能再读书，不能执笔写作。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Five years earlier, another oceanographer learned of the trash after a shipment of rubber duckies got lost at sea.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The big question for American now is whether there will be light at the end of the tunnel after more than 8 years of war there, after all that life lost and fouture spent.

现在对于美国一个重要的问题就是,是否有曙光的出现,8年的战争中，美国政府花费了大量的金钱，很多人也因为战争也失去了生命。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The Global Heritage Fund says over seventy percent of the environment in this area has been lost in the past ten years.

VOA: special.2010.11.03

In fact for readers of Paradise Lost, and this has been an experience now for a few hundred years, it does often seem as if there were some mysterious life force, a pulsating through Milton's dense and driving lines of unrhymed, iambic pentameter.

实际上，《失乐园》的读者们，几百年来一直都有这种体验，确实，似乎真有一种神秘的生命力，一种脉搏，贯穿在弥尔顿密集，强劲，没有韵律，长短不一的五音步格诗之中。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Also,a valuable record of thousands of years of weather history will also be lost if the ice melts.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

Democrat Grover Cleveland -- who had lost to Harrison four years earlier -- would be president again.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Indonesia is said to have lost almost half its mangroves forests within the past thirty years.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Children are particularly vulnerable to the hurt caused by discrimination and prejudice and we have lost many young people over the years to suicide.

VOA: special.2010.10.23

Over the next two years, beekeepers lost more than one-third of their honey bees.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

"I'm saying that this money, this opportunity that could be lost if it's not used will not happen to you again for another ten years,ten years.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

Within a few years, the national grange had lost most of its members.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

Burma,also known as Myanmar, has lost many valuable mangrove trees in recent years.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

She lost that election, and another election two years later.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

Over the next several years, many Americans lost their jobs.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

"Historically, during our last two recessions in ninety-one and two thousand one it's taken twenty-three months in ninety-one and about thirty-six months, three years,in our last recession in two thousand one for the United States to regain the jobs lost in the recession."

VOA: special.2009.11.06

Researchers at Harvard University and the University of Washington wanted to find out how many years are lost with these lifestyle choices.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

U.S.states where more people said they got no physical exercise outside work lost more quality adjusted life years.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

The effect of a disease - or a condition like obesity - can be tallied by a measure called quality-adjusted life years lost.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

"Over the past two years, the American people have lost about This carries a painful toll,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

Perhaps getting lost in neighborhoods where your loved one has lived for a number of years,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

A conflict the U.S.fought and lost some 40 years ago has come back to haunt a young president, his advisors,his generals, and the country he governs.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

The automaker has lost more than $80 billion during the last four years.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

Black women,in particular, had higher rates of obesity throughout the 16 years studied, and they paid the biggest price in terms of quality-adjusted years of life lost.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

The RDP was formed two years ago after its leader, Hidipo Hamutenya, lost his bid to become SWAPO leader upon the retirement of Namibia's first president, Sam Nujoma.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

Gardere says it will take at least four years to recoup his losses, but he is quick to point out that Barbancourt lost more than just business in the earthquake.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

"In terms of the burden of disease, it increased for everyone, but in particular it was black women who had 31 percent more in 2008 quality-adjusted life years lost compared to black men.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

"When I found a medieval abbey in France that said they had been baking for 1300 years, but had lost the last monk who knew how to bake bread, I volunteered to come over and bake some bread for them.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16