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> 私たちは生命を失う危険があった。  
>  私たちは生命の危険を失うおそれがあった。

These two sentences are translated the same way over various databases.

I can properly understand the first sentence as: "We were in danger of losing
our lives".

But I don't understand how the sentence below can be translated with the same
meaning. I can't see the correlation between 生命の危険 "danger of life"(?) and
を失うおそれ "fear of losing"(?)
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Difficulty understanding the sentence: 私たちは生命の危険を失うおそれがあった。
First of all, the second sentence doesn't look quite right:

> 私たちは生命の危険を失うおそれがあった。 = We risked to lose the danger of our lives.

I feel like you tried to put two sentences in one:

> 私たちは生命を失う危険があった。
>
> 私たちは生命を失う恐れがあった。

Also, the way you translate a sentence is not necessarily the way you should
understand the said sentence. To fully understand them, you should translate
them literally by breaking them down into pieces, in this case, you should
understand them as below

> 私たちは生命を失う危険があった。 = As for us, there was a danger of losing (our) lives.
>
> 私たちは生命を失う恐れがあった = As for us, there was a fear of losing (our) lives.

The difference is clear when you look at the Japanese, even though the
meanings are pretty close, but you shouldn't rely on the translations to
understand something.
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