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0【句子】He lost both his parents to this drought. 【Desperate Housewives S2E10】
【发音】/hiː/ /lɒst/ /lɑːst/ /bəʊθ/ /hɪz/ /ˈpeə.rənts/ /tʊ/ /ðɪs/ /draʊt/
【发音技巧】lost both失去爆破；
【翻译】在这次旱灾中，他失去了自己的双亲。
【适用场合】
今天我们学习的表达是：lose sth. to sb.，它可以指to have sth. taken away by sb./sth.，
“使得某个东西被某个人/某个事物带走”；或者理解成stop having sth.“不再拥有某物”；
那如果是跟疾病相关的使用场景呢？
If you lose someone to something such as a disease, they die as a result of it.
某个人患上了某种疾病而去世，所以你失去了ta。
eg: The company has lost a lot of business to its competitors.
这家公司的许多生意都被竞争对手抢走了。
eg: They feared losing the sale to a rival company.
他们担心这笔买卖会被竞争对手抢走。
eg: She lost her son to cancer when he was only five.
她儿子五岁时就因为癌症夭折了。
eg: She lost her mother to cancer.
她的母亲因为癌症去世了。
eg: She almost lost her life to the freezing water.
她差点在冰冷的水中丧命。
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成千上万的士兵在战争中丧生。
