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

们必须接受自己地位丧失，并意识到自己是可替代，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.

是她心目上帝，是她小小世心，对太宝贵了，决不敢冒丧失一地位危险去训斥她。

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.

如果们表现得不适合任何一行手艺，就得去当大田劳工，么一来们便觉得自己完全丧失取得一个社会地位资格了。

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.

当国还是世上最先进国家时，国领导人决定将自己国家与世其国家隔离，使得国接下来几个世纪里丧失了领先地位。