Without this to go by, overshooting their home ports, getting lost and sailing off into eternity would have been all too easy.

如果没有这些，他们就会很容易驶过家乡的港口，迷失方向并永远无法回来。

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He has let himself go since he lost his job.

他失业后就不修边幅了。

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I was going to have a go at parachuting but lost my nerve at the last minute.

我想尝试一下跳伞，可到最后关头却没有勇气了。

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Lincoln agreed. He felt it was his duty to go to honor the brave men who lost their lives to save the Union.

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My parents thought I'd lost my mind to drop out of Stanford Business School to go join some company that made software.

我父母认为我从斯坦福商学院,辍学去一家软件公司工作根本是疯了。

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We got lost once. We were trying to go to Spitalfields Market,

我们迷过一次路。我们想去斯毕塔菲尔德市场，

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And because she had to miss days of work, she was let go and lost her health care.

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Luke Donald, eighth with a round to go, lost his chance when he bogeyed the ninth and 10th.

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Gronholm, who trails Loeb by 25 points with three races to go, lost far too much time after his enforced gearbox refit.

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