As a result, they have lost the parachute they once had in times of financial setback—a back-up earner (usually Mom) who could go into the workforce if the primary earner got laid off or fell sick.

因此，它们已经失去了在经济萧条时期曾经持有的“保护伞”——一个后备挣钱者（通常是母亲），她可以在主要挣钱者失业或者病倒的时候出去工作。

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Even in the bad times she never lost her faith.

即使在困难时期，她也从未丧失信仰。

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I have lost count of the number of times men have asked me what I "do in bed".

我已经记不清楚男人们问了我多少次“你在床上怎么做”这样的问题。

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Brown ran for Congress twice in the early nineteen hundreds but lost both times.

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You actually have the word "first" appearing six times in the first thirty-three lines of Paradise Lost.

初/先“一词在《失乐园》的,头33行中就出现了6次。

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He campaigned to bring the Olympic Games to Madrid in 2012 and 2016 - but both times the Spanish capital lost its bid.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Last year nearly 100 jobs were cut at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail in Glasgow while in 2010 the bulk of staff at the Sunday Times in Glasgow lost their jobs when the paper scaled back its Scottish edition.

BBC: More jobs are cut at Scottish newspapers

Today, especially the speculators in silver and silver stocks ran for cover as silver lost 3 times the decline in gold.

FORBES: Silver Down 30%, Gold Off 11% As Panic Hits Precious Metals

Like all of them it lost competitiveness in the good times, and like Portugal and Greece it ran persistent and large current-account deficits.

ECONOMIST: Portugal seeks help