They must come to terms with a loss of their status and the realisation that they are both replaceable and mortal.

他们必须接受自己地位的丧失，并意识到自己是可替代的，而且终有一死。

He was her god, the center of her small world, and that was too precious for him to risk losing by reprimands.

他是她心目的上帝，是她小小世界的中心，对他实在太宝贵了，他决不敢冒丧失一地位的危险去训斥她。

If they showed no aptitude for any of these trades, they became field hands and, in the opinion of the negroes, they had lost their claim to any social standing at all.

如果他们表现得不适合任何一行手艺，就得去当大，么一来他们便觉得自己完全丧失取得一个社会地位的资格了。

The decision of China's leaders, when that was the most advanced nation in the world, to seal off their country from the rest of the world, forfeited China's preeminence in the centuries that followed.

当中国还是世界上最先进的国家时，中国领导决定将自己的国家与世界其他国家隔离，使得中国在接下来的几个世纪里丧失了领先地位。