And we wonder how it came to pass that these secrets were lost to the world.

我们想知道这些秘密是如何被世人遗忘的。

People built slighter and slighter every day, until it was feared that the very science of architecture would in no long time be lost to the world.

日复一日，居民窝棚越发粗制潦草，甚至有人开始担忧，这门盖房技艺无需良久就会失传，无人承继。

The fortunate condition of its being for ever lost to the world invested the deceased Mr. Yeobright's tour de force on that memorable afternoon with a cumulative glory which comparative criticism, had that been possible, might considerably have shorn down.

已故约布赖特先生在那个令人难忘的下午的绝妙表演早已不为世人所见，便更其显得辉煌了，当然，如有可能将它跟别的例子加以比较评判的话，倒或许会大失其光彩了。