【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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