lost

adjective

/lɒst/

/lɔːst/

Idioms

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unable to find your way; not knowing where you are迷路的；迷失的
- We always get lost in London.我們在倫敦老是迷路。
- We're completely lost.我們完全迷路了。
- We got lost in the woods.我們在森林中迷路了。
- I was tired, hungry and hopelessly lost. 我又累又餓，絕望地迷路了。
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
verbs
- be
- get
adverb
- completely
- hopelessly
See full entry
that cannot be found or brought back失去的；丢失的；喪失的；無法恢複的
- I'm still looking for that lost file.我還在找那份丢失的檔案。
- a lost cat/dog/pet迷路的貓/狗/寵物
- Your invitation must have got lost in the post.你的邀請一定是在郵件中丢失了。
- Report all instances of lost or stolen cards immediately.立即報告所有丢失或被盜的卡。
- Along with flight delays, lost luggage is the most common cause for passenger complaint. 除了航班延誤，行李丢失是乘客投訴的最常見原因。
- Without a form of backup, this data would be lost forever.如果沒有某種形式的備份，這些數據將永遠丢失。
see also long-lost
[usually before noun] that cannot be obtained; that cannot be found or created again得不到的；無法再找到的；無法再造的
- Piracy is costing film studios millions in lost revenues. 盜版讓電影公司損失了數百萬的收入。
- The strike cost them thousands of pounds in lost business.罷工使他們失去了幾千英鎊的生意。
- lost sales/profits/earnings損失的銷售額/利潤/收益
- She's trying to recapture her lost youth.她在努力追回逝去的青春。
- a poignant and bittersweet tale of lost love 關於失戀的辛酸而又苦樂參半的故事
- He regretted the lost (= wasted) opportunity to apologize to her.他後悔錯過了向她道歉的機會。
- the lost art of letter-writing失落的寫信藝術
[not usually before noun] unable to deal successfully with a particular situation不知所措；一籌莫展
- I felt so lost after my mother died.我母親去世後我覺得茫然無措。
- lost without somebody/something We would be lost without your help.我們沒有你的幫助就會一籌莫展。
- He's a lost soul (= a person who does not seem to know what to do, and seems unhappy).他是個迷惘的人。
Extra Examples
- I felt lost without my watch.沒有手表，我有點兒不知所措。
- She looked rather lost and lonely, standing in a corner by herself.她獨自站在角落裏，看上去茫然而孤獨。
Topics Difficulty and failureb2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
verbs
- be
- feel
- look
- …
adverb
- completely
- totally
- very
- …
See full entry
[not before noun] unable to understand something because it is too complicated弄不懂；困惑
- They spoke so quickly I just got lost.他們說得太快，我跟不上了。
- Hang on a minute—I'm lost.等一下，我沒弄明白。
- I was a little lost at first but quickly caught on to what was happening in this elaborate series. 起初我有點困惑，但很快就明白了這個精心制作的系列中發生了什麽。
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
verbs
- be
- feel
- look
- …
adverb
- completely
- totally
- very
- …
See full entry

Idioms

all is not lost

there is still some hope of making a bad situation better還有一線希望
- All is not lost—we still haven’t tried the banks for a loan.並非一無所獲——我們仍未向銀行申請貸款。

be lost for words

to be so surprised, confused, etc. that you do not know what to say（非常驚訝、困惑等而）不知說什麽才好Topics Feelingsc1

be lost in something

to be giving all your attention to something so that you do not notice what is happening around you全神貫注；沉浸於
- to be lost in thought陷入沉思

be lost on somebody

to be not understood or noticed by somebody未被某人理解（或注意）
- His jokes were completely lost on most of the students.他講的那些笑話大多數學生一點都沒能領會。

be lost to the world

to be giving all your attention to something so that you do not notice what is happening around you全神貫注；沉浸於
- When he’s listening to music he’s lost to the world.當他在聽音樂時，他迷失在這個世界上。

get lost

(informal) a rude way of telling somebody to go away, or of refusing something（讓人走開或拒絕某事的不禮貌說法）滾開，别來煩我
- Tell him to get lost.叫他滾。
- ‘Lend us the car, won’t you?’ ‘Get lost!’“把車借給我們，好嗎，”。“滾開！

give somebody up for lost

(formal) to stop expecting to find somebody alive認爲某人沒有生還的可能；認定某人已死

make up for lost time

to do something quickly or very often because you wish you had started doing it sooner（加快或加緊做某事以）彌補失去的時間
- I’ll have to work hard now to make up for lost time.我現在必須努力工作來彌補失去的時間。

there’s little/no love lost between A and B