lost time

基本解释

He'll catch up on lost time by working harder.
他将更加努力地工作以弥补失掉的时间。
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.
她解释说，这样会浪费时间带来成本，女性自己也要付出代价，因为“人们会认为她不是最合适的人选，那份工作本来就是留给女人的。”
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.
在普鲁斯特的“寻找失落的首句时间”出来作为一个不通“长的时间我就很早上床睡觉，”和其他大多数现代经典的结果，也同样无法使用。

"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.
本来的计划是待一两年，然后就回多伦多，但是计划打乱了。
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I think you'd get lost pretty much all the time.
你会经常迷路。
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Great efficiency without adequate range means more stops to refuel (or recharge) and lost time.
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