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Unlike Rio Tinto and Xstrata, BHP is not encumbered by a vast debt pile, but this is partly because it lost out to Rio in the bidding for Canadian aluminium producer Alcan.
与力拓和斯特拉塔相比，必和必拓不是被庞大的债务所束缚，而是一定程度上是因为在投标加拿大铝生产商阿尔坎的过程中，它输给了力拓。
As for capital-market competitiveness, some measures—such as the share of initial public offerings—do indeed suggest that America has lost out to other financial centres like London.
至于资本市场的竞争力，有些测算数据——例如首次公开上市的股价等——确实表明美国输给了伦敦这样的金融中心。
Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle was dealt an unexpected blow when she lost out to a group of young street dancers in the final of the British talent show that made her a global star.
在“英国达人”决赛中，苏格兰歌坛神话苏珊•波伊尔意外败给了一个年轻的街舞组合。之前她曾凭借该选秀节目在全球走红。

Researchers at Harvard University and the University of Washington wanted to find out how many years are lost with these lifestyle choices.
My parents thought I'd lost my mind to drop out of Stanford Business School to go join some company that made software.
我父母认为我从斯坦福商学院,辍学去一家软件公司工作根本是疯了。
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As we've found cells from adult organisms that seem to be multipotential and studied them more carefully, some of their potentials turn out to be lost, they're not exactly the same.
因为我们在成人机体中找到,这些看上去是多能干细胞的细胞后,仔细研究后发现它们的一些潜能已经丢失,和胚胎中的那些并不一样
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In 1836 residents proposed it as South Australia's provincial capital, but it lost out to Adelaide.
FORBES: The Future Is Fish
Mr Grundhofer lost out to Mr Hazen for the top job at Wells in 1995.
ECONOMIST: American banks