If that's not a novelist's description of what a lost cause is I've never read one.

这就是一个小说家所描述的失败的代价,我从未读到过更贴切的说法了

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

A lot of times they have lost their job, or have become injured or something, so they can't work anymore.

大多数情况下，他们可能是失业了，或者受伤了等等原因导致他们无法继续工作。

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Her answer was this and it's got something to do with how a lost cause took hold too but she said, "Southerners love a good tale.

她是这么回答的,同时也解释了为何南方人始终无法释怀,她说,"南方人钟爱精彩的故事

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

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。

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And what I want to read to you is this passage on page 7: I was lost in a fog of fear.

我想给大家,念一下第七页：,“我在充满恐惧的迷雾中迷失。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It makes sense that we pay families who have lost a father or a mother so that they can keep going.

我们给失去亲人的家庭,付一些钱是有道理的,这样他们可以继续生活

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So,Once they are lost in response to a toxic sound or to an antibiotic it cannot be regenerated by natural means.

一旦因噪音或抗生素遭受损失,就难以再生。

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But, you know, I know someone who was a teacher in a Chicago public school for decades and lost his job, teaching math to high school kids, because he is gay.

我认识一个任职于,一所芝加哥公立学校几十年的老教师,被解雇了，他在高中教数学，仅仅是因为他是同性恋。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But they lost a large part of their emotional capacity and as a result, their rationality failed.

但是他们失去了大部分情感能力,结果，他们失去了理性。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

This is a point that is often lost in the Republic, that it is first of all a work on the reform of the soul.

这是在《理想国》中常被落掉的观点，即改革灵魂,为首要之事。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I have a very strong sense that America has lost its way in the world.

我深深地认为,美国现已不得人心。

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When I was a kid there was a television show called Lost in Space.

我小时候,有一部叫"迷失太空"的电视剧

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I mean, families lost earnings but they also lost a loved one and that is more valued than $200,000.

他们不但家庭收入受损，还丧失了亲人,那损失远不止20万美元。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The plan was to stay for a year or two, and then go back to Canada, and I lost track of time.

本来的计划是待一两年，然后就回多伦多，但是计划打乱了。

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The legal subject is the father; he has lost a child. So I have to suffer the literal punishment, as a father, I have to lose my child. Right?

法律主体是父亲，他失去了孩子，作为父亲，我也必须,遭受原义惩罚，失去我自己的孩子，对吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Now, let me explain a detail that I think is important, but I think a little lost to us in today's world of technology.

现在，让我向你们解释一个我认为很重要的细节，但是我觉得在现在的科技中有点迷失了的。

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