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to lose
HSK 3
to be defeated / to lose / to fail (e.g. experiments) / failure / defeat / CL:
HSK 4
to disappear; to fade away
HSK 3
unemployment / to lose one's job
HSK 4
loss / damage / CL: 個|个 / to lose / to suffer damage
HSK 5
disappointed / to lose hope / to despair
HSK 4
lapse / mistake / to make a mistake / fault / service fault (in volleyball, tennis etc)
HSK 5
to lose / to forfeit
HSK 6
still possesses; yet retains (some positive attribute that contrasts with another of its attributes)
gains and losses / success and failure / merits and demerits
HSK 7-9
surefire; absolutely safe (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to lose one's eyesight / to become blind / blindness
HSK 7-9
the gains do not make up for the losses (idiom)
HSK 7-9
collision in which only one party is at fault
to show disrespect; I'm awfully sorry – please forgive me
to lose one's love / to break up (in a romantic relationship) / to feel jilted
HSK 7-9
out of order (of machine) / not working properly / a failing (of a system)
HSK 7-9
to go out of control
HSK 7-9
to suffer the painful loss of (a loved one etc) / to miss out on (an opportunity) / to fail to gain (victory etc)
to break a promise
to lose / to suffer defeat
HSK 7-9
Failure is the mother of success.
to go pale in panic (idiom)
to lose one's head out of fear (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to lose (sth) / to drop (sth) / to feel a sense of loss / frustrated / disappointment / loss
HSK 7-9
to seize the opportune moment / to lose no time
to laugh involuntarily / Taiwan pr. [e4 ran2 shi1 xiao4]
to miss narrowly / to let a great opportunity slip
a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow (idiom)
to fail / to lose effectiveness
HSK 7-9
lack; deficiency / shortcoming; flaw; defect / to be deficient; to lack
HSK 7-9
flustered / ruffled / disconcerted
to unbalance / an imbalance
to suffer from insomnia
HSK 7-9
to be missing / to disappear / unaccounted for
HSK 7-9
lacking in propriety / bad form
(of soil etc) to wash away / to be eroded / (fig.) (of talented staff, followers of a religious faith, investment funds etc) to go elsewhere / to fail to be retained
HSK 7-9
panic-stricken (idiom) / to be in a flustered state / also written 張惶失措|张惶失措
error / fault / (law) negligence / delinquency
HSK 7-9
lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best (idiom) / fig. a blessing in disguise / it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
rushed work leads to errors (idiom)
to lose one's memory
(idiom) dazed; beside oneself
to lose (one's bearings) / to get lost
HSK 7-9
to lose contact / to be lost
the slightest difference leads to a huge loss (idiom) / a miss is as good as a mile
disappointed; frustrated
fault / mistake / to miss (a chance)
to lose what one has just obtained (idiom)
can be regarded as; qualifies as (something positive)
to lose territory / lost territory
to be ungenerous
A just cause attracts much support, an unjust one finds little (idiom, from Mencius)
to be used up / to be exhausted
to save a little only to lose a lot (idiom)
bereaved of one's only child
to lose blood / to hemorrhage / (fig.) to suffer losses (financial etc)
to lose one's voice / (to cry out) involuntarily
to recover lost territory
rash / impudent
to catch fire; to be on fire
lit. a wise person reflecting a thousand times can still make a mistake (idiom); fig. nobody is infallible
to lose; to misplace
HSK 7-9
(aviation) to stall
lit. just as humans make mistakes, so can a horse stumble (idiom) / fig. everyone makes mistakes / even the best fall down sometimes
greatly disappointed
an unemployed person
to miss an appointment
to go deaf; to lose one's hearing / deafness; hearing loss
to lose color / to turn pale
to lose / to miss
unemployment rate
HSK 7-9
breach of responsibility / failure to carry out one's duty
discourteous / failure of etiquette
a slip / miscalculation / unwise move / accidentally / by mistake / to lose control / to be defeated
to neglect one's duty; to be guilty of dereliction of duty
to sit and waste a good opportunity (idiom); to lose the chance
defeatism
to lose one's way / to get lost (on the road etc)
to lose; to leave behind (inadvertently)
to lose favor / in disfavor / disgraced
(of skills etc) to die out / lost / extinct
HSK 7-9
to worry about personal gains and losses
penny wise and pound foolish (idiom)
medical negligence / medical malpractice
reckless person / hothead
to overstep the rules / to go out of bounds / disqualification / to lose face / disqualified
unclaimed lost property
a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous losses
to be disloyal (to one's country, spouse etc) / to lose one's chastity
expiry date (of document)
lit. to attend to one thing and lose sight of another (idiom) / fig. to be unable to manage two or more things at once / cannot pay attention to one thing without neglecting the other
to turn pale with fright (idiom)
disrepair
out of one's mind
to lack fidelity / (signal) distortion
professional negligence
No time to lose! (idiom)
to miscalculate; to misjudge
unable to go to school / an interruption to one's education

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