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sacrifice

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Related topics: Religion
sac·ri·fice1 /ˈsækrəfaɪs/ ●●○ noun
1  GIVE[countableC, uncountableU] when you decide not to have something valuable, in order to get something that is more important 犧牲
The minister stressed the need for economic sacrifice.
部長強調了在經濟上作出犧牲的必要性。
The workforce were willing to make sacrifices in order to preserve jobs.
僱員爲了保住飯碗情願作出犧牲。
She brought three children up single-handedly, often at great personal sacrifice.
她獨自一人把三個孩子帶大，常常需要作出巨大的個人犧牲。
2  RR
a) [countableC, uncountableU] the act of offering something to a god, especially in the past, by killing an animal or person in a religious ceremony 獻祭〔尤指舊時在宗教儀式中把動物或人殺死作祭品〕
They made sacrifices to ensure a good harvest.
他們舉行獻祭以保豐收。
b) [countableC] an animal, person, or object offered to a god in sacrifice 祭品，供品
sacrifice to
In those days, an animal was offered as a sacrifice to God.
那時候把動物作爲祭品獻給上帝。
a human sacrifice (=a person killed as a sacrifice)
人祭
3  the final/supreme/ultimate sacrifice DIEthe act of dying while you are fighting for a principle or in order to help other people 犧牲生命，捐軀
Captain Oates made the ultimate sacrifice in a bid to save his colleagues.
奧茨上尉爲救同僚而犧牲了自己的生命。
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the final/supreme/ultimate sacrifice• This might appear to be the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of the colony, but all the bees in the colony are genetically related.• We felt that it was a great tribute to us and all our many comrades who made the supreme sacrifice.• You made the supreme sacrifice of your life for your work last night, so don't be shy about admitting it.• Also there, Captain Oates, the man who was to make the ultimate sacrifice in a bid to save his colleagues.• In that sense I suppose I am making the ultimate sacrifice.• These were people who showed courage, faith, and were an example to all by making the supreme sacrifice.• He evidently thought his life was so valuable that some one would surely save it even at the cost of the supreme sacrifice.
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sacrifice• When the death is commemorated as a sacrifice, this is by way of interpretive metaphor.• This section speaks of the incompleteness of tongues, prophecy, faith, and sacrifice without love as motivation.• The sight of another person's suffering and sacrifice stopped me thinking so much about my own problems.• At the opening ceremony for a new building recently, a man made an impassioned speech about the wrongs of animal sacrifice.• In another, they are merely expendable sacrifices to national economic development.• Parenthood often calls for sacrifice.• They evolved a form of worship which required neither priest, Temple nor sacrifice.• What Ullman wants is to play every character in her imagination, at great personal sacrifice.• Puckett's sacrifice let Gladden score.• Just as everyone was expecting a draw, however, Yusupov made a an unexpected sacrifice of a bishop.
personal sacrifice• Providing the safety and stability that children need can mean major financial and personal sacrifices.• Brave personal sacrifices are juxtaposed with quirky moments.• What Ullman wants is to play every character in her imagination, at great personal sacrifice.• We could ask, for example: what sort of personal sacrifices might people have to make in order to reduce pollution?• That some blacks are willing to make some significant personal sacrifices to pursue certain mutually shared goals.
human sacrifice• The ceremony included a human sacrifice.• Hale's eyes stare knowingly at the viewer, a human sacrifice to an alienated and consumerist culture.• Believing gods were pacified by human blood, they killed thousands in human sacrifice.• He was dressed as a wizard and the whole place was full of drawings of human sacrifices and magic designs.• Some certainly saw her as a kind of human sacrifice, albeit a willing one.• She may have originated with the notion of human sacrifice to ensure plentiful crops, for her actions were often bloodthirsty.• Just as humans depend on plants to live, so the Gods depend on human sacrifices for a kind of sustenance.• Later accounts held that the Druids made Stonehenge, where they supposedly practiced human sacrifice.• There are also stories which point back clearly to a time when there was human sacrifice.
Related topics: Religion
sacrifice2 ●●○ verb
1  [transitiveT]GIVE to willingly stop having something you want or doing something you like in order to get something more important 犧牲，獻出
sacrifice something for something
A Labour government chose to sacrifice defence for welfare.
有一屆工黨政府選擇犧牲國防來提高福利。
sacrifice something to do something
He sacrificed a promising career to look after his kids.
他爲了照看孩子犧牲了很有前途的事業。
sacrifice yourself (for something)
mothers who sacrifice themselves for their children
爲了子女而犧牲自己的母親們
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In everyday English, people often say give up rather than sacrifice: 在日常英語中,人們經常說give up,而不說sacrifice
He gave up a promising career to look after his kids.
他爲照看孩子放棄了很有前途的事業。
2. [intransitiveI, transitiveT]RR to kill an animal or person and offer them to a god in a religious ceremony 獻祭；以…作祭品
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sacrifice• Not literally, perhaps-but he wanted to know how much I would go through for him, how much I would sacrifice.• He sacrificed a promising career to look after his handicapped daughter.• Some will be prepared to sacrifice a short-term class advantage to the mandate for a long-term restoration of the national well-being.• This is what nature does: it sacrifices elegance for reliability.• Two men so different in appearance and manner, yet both prepared to sacrifice her feelings on the altar of their ambition.• Her letters reveal the extent to which she had sacrificed her identity.• The nation is not prepared to sacrifice its independence for the sake of an alliance with a powerful neighbour.• He sacrificed status to remain in Middlemarch and even so can not see her.• What we are being asked to do now is to sacrifice the development of these areas in order to protect the environment.• The intense preliminary bombardment, so characteristic of Pétain, was just too prolonged and sacrificed the vital element of surprise.• Is he a deity bearing off animals that have been sacrificed to him?
sacrifice yourself (for something)• We'd have to sacrifice ourselves, to be transformed, instantly.• She is prepared to sacrifice herself again for some one else.• It would seem likely that more people get themselves killed out of pride than sacrifice themselves for any moral end.• She sacrificed herself for her country.• He asked each of his older girls to sacrifice herself for the family.• I urgently felt the need to sacrifice myself for the underprivileged.• But my duty is to sacrifice myself to save the army which has so nobly done its duty to defend Vicksburg.• So would I. You need to be uncomplicated, maybe, to sacrifice yourself willingly.
From Longman Business Dictionary
sacrificesac·ri·fice1 /ˈsækrəfaɪs/ noun [countableC, uncountableU]
something valuable that you decide not to have, in order to get something that is more important
The directors are willing to make certain sacrifices to make the company financially viable.
Lawyers who choose to work in smaller firms often make a substantial economic sacrifice.
sacrificesacrifice2 verb [transitiveT]
to willingly stop having something you want or doing something you like in order to get something more important
sacrifice something for
The self-employed sacrifice security for the power to regulate their own careers.
sacrifice something to do something
In order to stay competitive, the company has had to sacrifice profit margins.
Origin sacrifice1
(1200-1300) Old French Latin sacrificium, from sacer ( → SACRED) + facere “to make”
sac·ri·fice1 nounsacrifice2 verb →REGISTER1
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