lost time

基本解釋

He'll catch up on lost time by working harder.
他將更加努力地工作以彌補失掉的時間。
There's a cost, she explained, in lost time, and a cost for women, because “people will think she's not the best person and that job was held open for a woman.
她解釋說，這樣會浪費時間帶來成本，女性自己也要付出代價，因為“人們會認為她不是最合適的人選，那份工作本來就是留給女人的?！?/li>
The opening sentence of Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” comes out as an ungrammatical “Long time I went to bed early,” and the results for most other modern classics are just as unusable.
在普魯斯特的“尋找失落的首句時間”出來作為一個不通“長的時間我就很早上床睡覺，”和其他大多數(shù)現(xiàn)代經(jīng)典的結(jié)果，也同樣無法使用。

"It's estimated that the average commuter in our region, congestion costs that person in excess of $1000 per year in lost time."
The plan was to stay for a year or two, and then go back to Canada, and I lost track of time.
本來的計劃是待一兩年，然后就回多倫多，但是計劃打亂了。
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I think you'd get lost pretty much all the time.
你會經(jīng)常迷路。
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Great efficiency without adequate range means more stops to refuel (or recharge) and lost time.
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