Though we've never had a catastrophic loss such as that, Gibbs and I did have a close call shortly before we decided to simplify.

虽然我们从未经历过那样的灾难性损失，但吉布斯和我确实在我们决定简化程序之前进行了一次简短的密切通话。

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You can call the bank to report the loss.

你可以打电话给银行挂失。

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The loss of talent, say Professors McHale and Kapur, is a wake-up call to poorer countries.

McHale和Kapur两位教授称，人才的流失是对贫困国家的一个警告。

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And the banks can tap funds set aside for loan-loss reserves and call them profits.

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Rather, the US government will sell it, at a discount (what you and I might call a loss), to ethanol producers.

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Put it another way, it might be worth incurring what economists would call some "deadweight loss" to make them happen.

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