A distraught Elizabeth Taylor issued a statement saying her life will be empty after the loss of her close friend.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

Modern poetry arises, in Eliot's case, with the death of God, with the loss of a theological justification for life, with a sense of disenchantment, a sense of depletion, depletion of meaning and value.

在艾略特而言，现代诗歌的兴起，与对上帝信仰的消失，以及对生活不再在理论使其合理化，及人们的觉醒，对意义和价值的耗尽是相伴相随的。

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So if $200,000, Julie, is too low a figure because it doesn't include the loss of a loved one and the loss of those years of life, what would be what do you think would be a more accurate number?

朱莉，要是20万美金不够,因为没有算丧失亲人,和生命的损失，那你认为什么数目更合适？

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City College of New York professor Erica Lubetkin is one of the authors of a new study that looked at the loss of quality life years due to obesity and how that changed between 1993 and 2008.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10