In the space of 30 years the old-growth chestnut forest in North America lost every specimen of a species — the mighty chestnut — that formerly constituted a significant hunk of the forest's mass.

在30年的生长中，北美的板栗林失去了物种——高大的栗树——的每个标本，这是以前板栗林中非常重要的一块。

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A planned servicing mission was cancelled in January 2004 after the space shuttle Columbia was lost along with its crew of seven astronauts in 2003.

2003年哥伦比亚号太空飞梭失事，七名宇航员丧生，这之后，2004年，对哈勃原定的维修任务被取消。

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In an intervention, executives can be asked to imagine an all-company meeting in which half the attendees spend most of the meeting on their smartphones, lost in cyber-space.

高层们应该可以想象，在一次全公司的会议中，如果其中一半的人都在摆弄自己的智能手机，那会时什么样的结果。

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One projection indicates that 23,000 jobs with direct or indirect ties to the space industry, could be lost in Florida within a year.

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