You lose your patience and either scream at your kids or say something that was a bit too harsh and does nobody any good.

你失去了耐心，要么对你的孩子大喊大叫，要么说一些过于严厉、对任何人都没有好处的话。

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Sensors and circuits were on the brink of failing and NASA experts realised that they had to do something or lose contact with their probe forever.

传感器和电路濒临故障，NASA 的专家们意识到他们必须做点什么，否则将永远与探测器失去联系。

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Did you lose your packetin the war or something?

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I lose my interest in philosophy and take up an interest in, I don't know,something that completely doesn't-- organic chemistry holds no interest to me whatsoever.

我失去了对哲学的兴趣，对一个完全不相干的东西-,比如以前完全不感兴趣的有机化学。

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He therefore has something to lose if he spends his time looking after sub-optimal eggs.

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So, U.S. banks do have something to lose if Ireland, Greece, Portugal or Spain ever have to default.

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Student groups in the third world are riot prone, too, but the middle class is usually riot averse, because it has something to lose.

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