A credit-default swap may be described as an insurance that investors buy to compensate for a loss if a particular debtor defaults on its obligation.

信用违约互换(credit - default swap，简称CDS，又译为信用违约掉期)可看成是一种保险，投资者购买CDS以弥补一旦某特定债务人发生债务违约而可能给自己造成的损失。

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This heat from unused sunlight and inefficiencies in the cells themselves account for a loss of more than 50 percent of the initial solar energy reaching the cell.

未被利用的阳光和电池本身的低效率产生的热量导致一半以上的抵达到电池的原始太阳能损失掉了。

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Nothing can compensate for the loss of a loved one.

失去心爱的人是无法补偿的。

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Mr.Czudek says the loss of a maize crop can mean the loss of a family's food supply for a year.

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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。

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There's also a more specific, a more local, reason for which our John Milton was susceptible to this profit-and-loss rhetoric of Calvinist puritan theology.

还有一个更具体，更局部的原因,弥尔顿易受,卡尔文新教神学的盈亏理论的影响。

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He restored it and sold it for a loss when the real-estate market softened in 1990.

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It easily beat Wall Street analysts' projections for a loss, and provided an upbeat first-quarter outlook.

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By the final hole, he had fallen behind by four and was steeling himself for a loss.

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