Private partnerships were wonderfully flexible but lacked the vital ingredient of limited liability: partners could lose everything they owned if the business failed.

私营合伙企业具有很好的灵活性，但缺乏有限责任的重要元素。也就是说，一旦他们拥有的企业失败，合伙人将一无所有。

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You're going to lose an hour of sleep, and then I thought but what the hell, you've pretty much lost everything else.

你将会失去一个小时的睡眠，不过我想，管它哪，反正你已经差不多失去了一切。

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But, if you lose your character, you have lost everything.

但如果你失去了品格，那你就失去了一切。

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But in remarks at a defence seminar in Paris, Mr.Sarkozy stressed France had nothing to lose, and everything to gain, by rejoining the military command.

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It -- but we stand to lose everything, actually.

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