With life basis lost, education has grown instrumental day by day and lost its own sense of direction.

失去了生活根基，教育工具性日益增长，迷失了自身方向。

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Aesthetics has lost its own distinctive feature under the long-term suppression of metaphysics and physics.

美学长期在“形而上学”和“形而下学”压制之下，丧失了自身的特质。

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Thus the law lost its own independence and stopped being open to the outside, and as a result became hypocritical, conservative and cruel.

法律失去其本应具有的独立性、开放性之品格，造成了法律的虚伪、保守和残酷。

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His mind had lost its sharpness. This did not worry Buchanan, because he had planned to be his own foreign minister.

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Sir Bob Russell is MP for Colchester, which lost its own bid for city status.

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You know a company is lost when its own customers demand change and the company refuses to deliver it.

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The American middle class is falling into obscurity with nary a wimper, lost in its own self interest and unable to work together as a single force, making us mostly to blame for our own demise.

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