| 释义 |
lose contact with someone/something
collocation
to stop communicating with someone, usually because they do not live near you now, or to stop communicating with an organization:
We lost contact with each other after we left school but recently met up again.
I didn't want to lose contact with her, so made a point of emailing regularly.
to stop being able to communicate with a vehicle such as a plane or a spacecraft:
The flight controller became alarmed when she lost contact with the plane.
The helicopter was on a routine training flight when air traffic controllers lost contact with it.
I lost contact with my old work colleagues after retirement.
He felt that he had lost contact with a lot of his real friends after becoming famous.
I'd hate to lose contact with my college friends.我不愿和从前的校友失去联系。
They lost contact with the satellite for several hours.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Communicating & keeping in touch
ahold
approach
backchannel
bell
call back
call someone up
catchup
drop
in contact with someone
interactive
interactively
make contact with someone/something
noncommunicating
people skills
reach
ring
tinkle
unreachable
unreached
via
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