"Excessive Internet use should be defined not by the number of hours spent online but in terms of losses," said Maressa Orzack, a Harvard University professor.

哈佛大学教授马瑞莎·奥扎克说：“过度的互联网使用不应该用上网时长来定义，而应该用损失来定义。”

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The potential to provide 60-100% more food by simply eliminating losses, while simultaneously freeing up land, energy and water resources for other uses, is an opportunity that should not be ignored.

仅仅通过减少损失就有可能增加60% -100%的粮食供应，同时腾出土地、能源和水资源用于其他用途，这是一个不应被忽视的机会。

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A spokesman said the changes were not in reaction to the company's recent losses.

一位发言人说，这些变动不是针对公司最近的损失而作出的反应。

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Farmers may not be able to prevent natural disasters, but they can at least try their best to reduce losses.

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Not the debtors, the creditors who lent the money will end up bearing the losses.

不是债务人,是贷出资金的债权人最终将承受损失

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The study found that losses from obesity are now equal to, if not greater than, those from smoking.

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By the summer of 2002 stocks declined about another 20% and the yields on the 10 year Treasury had declined to 3.6%, producing significant gains, not losses.

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There's something so Knicks-like about this predicament, how these losses to the Pacers are not just losses, but come accompanied by a dramatic real-time locker-room soul-search, with hurt feelings and disagreements over what and whom to blame.

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So far most of the banking sector losses have been accounting writedowns, not cash losses.

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