They do not want to expend energy in what, to them, is a lost cause.

他们不想把精力投到他们认为注定不会成功的事中去。

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Managers should therefore adopt an approach that appears counterintuitive—they should explain what stands to be lost if the company fails to seize a particular opportunity.

因此，管理人员应该采取一种似乎有违直觉的方法——他们应说明如果公司未能抓住特定的机会，可能遭受怎样的损失。

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Were they part of what inspired the "Lost Fleet"?

它们是“失踪的舰队”的灵感来源么？

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"But,it puts us in a very awkward position because,if we cannot go there ourselves to see what they are doing, to whom they are distributing and what criteria they are using, how much they are keeping for themselves, how much is getting lost, we start losing control over it,"

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And what they've lost is they basically lost a good part of their emotions.

他们丢掉的,基本上是一大部分情感。

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and I want to show people's... what people do when they have nothing, when they've lost everything.

想展现人们的……想展现他们在一无所有、失去一切的时候所做的事情。

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Mr. ROY RENARD (Utility Lineman, Portland General): Any settlement that we get won't be nearly enough to compensate the employees for what they've lost and what they've been through, I can assure you that.

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And the biggest tragedy is that they will never realize what they lost.

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What they lost in complexity they are looking to pick up in global customer sales.

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