区别辨析 lose ground to, lose out (to) 与 lose to

(1) lose ground to意思是“让位给……;被……打败;竞争不过,输给”,相当于yield to。

  • The theater is quickly losing ground to television.
    剧场正迅速让位于电视。

 (2) lose out (to)意为“输(给),败(给)”。

  • Jim's father is afraid that he may lose out to larger firms.
    吉姆的父亲担心他可能会输给一些较大的公司。
  • The theater is losing out to television.
    剧场正输给电视。
  • Jack came second again; he always loses out .
    杰克又得了第二,他老是输。

 (3) lose to也表示“输给、败给(某人)”。

  • The tennis player was ashamed of losing to a much older opponent.
    这位网球手为输给一位年龄大得多的对手而感到羞愧。
  • lost a lot of money to two men with whom I was playing cards on the train.
    我输给火车上跟我玩扑克的两个人好多钱。