In the long run, excuse makers fail to live up to their true potential and lose the status they care so much about.

从长远来看，找借口的人无法发挥出他们真正的潜力，而且会失去他们最在乎的地位。

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On the flipside, English could lose its status as the global lingua franca and the need to learn it will become less relevant, thereby preserving a whole host of other languages.

另一方面，英语可能会失去它作为世界通用语的地位，学习英语也将变得没那么重要，但由此将能保护大量各种各样的语种。

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With neither the euro nor the yuan yet ready to usurp it, the dollar will not quickly lose its reserve-currency status.

欧元或人民币仍未能取而代之，美元不会迅速失去其储备货币的地位。

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Chioma Fitzgerald of Philadelphia worries that as Ebay recognizes more top sellers, she will lose status.

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Applications to maintain tax-exempt status poured in after a 2006 law mandated that nonprofits would lose their status if they hadn't filed an annual report for three years.

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Those results were enough to convince the UKBA that the university had to lose its status.

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