英语词汇“a loss”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. a (great, etc.) loss (in this sense) is often idiomatically predicated of the person or thing lost, where in strictness the subject of the sentence should be the loss or deprivation of this. (The more correct expression, as in quot. 1605, is obsolete.) dead loss: see dead adj. 30.

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1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ee1 For apophthegmes; It is a great losse of that Booke of Cæsars. ]

a1903 Mod. Our opponents are welcome to their new convert; he is no loss.

1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet i. i. 16 Major De Spain's barn taken fire and was a total loss.

1943 Scrutiny 11 288 If you apply serious standards, then P. G. [Wodehouse] is a total loss.

单词	a loss
释义	> as lemmas a (great, etc.) loss c. a (great, etc.) loss (in this sense) is often idiomatically predicated of the person or thing lost, where in strictness the subject of the sentence should be the loss or deprivation of this. (The more correct expression, as in quot. 1605, is obsolete.) dead loss: see dead adj. 30. ΚΠ 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ee1 For apophthegmes; It is a great losse of that Booke of Cæsars. View more context for this quotation] a1903 Mod. Our opponents are welcome to their new convert; he is no loss. 1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet i. i. 16 Major De Spain's barn taken fire and was a total loss. 1943 Scrutiny 11 288 If you apply serious standards, then P. G. [Wodehouse] is a total loss. extracted from lossn.¹ < as lemmas
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