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他们利用他怕失掉工作的心理, 让他做他们想做的事. They played on his fears of losing his job to get him to do what they wanted.
我失掉这份工作也没有关系,我随时都能再找到工作。 It's no skin off my nose if I lose this job, I can always get another one.
世间的女性,甚至尼姑,都情愿失掉贞操也不愿失掉声誉。 Any woman in the world, even a nun, will rather lose her virtue than her reputation.
我们不能冒(失掉全部钱的)风险. We can't run the risk (of losing all that money).