Many small businesses have fallen victim to the recession.
许多小企业成为经济衰退的受害者。
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fall victim to somebody/something• And dying for a drink.The badgerfalls victim to the drought.• Bill Vaughan, returned the favor last year after the Baptistchurchfell victim toarson.• Not one has ever fallen victim to a gangland-style hit after coming forward with solid information.• Even Jim Harrick fell victim to the mood.• For one thing, government economicstatistics have fallen victim to the fiscalparalysis in Washington.• Numbers of large mammals, including elephants, will have fallen victim toboobytraps and land-mines.• Many of you who do use your talents and prosper in the business may fall victim to its pressures.• Don't allow yourself to fall victim toself-fulfillingprophecy.
There are now so many tourists that the area has become a victim of its own success.
现在来了这么多游客,使该地区因成功而反受其害。
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be/become a victim of its own success• The helplineis a victim of its own success with so many people calling that no one can get through.• Moreover, to a great extent the health service is a victim of its own success.
5.sacrificial victimRRa person or animal that is killed and offered as a sacrifice (=gift) to a god 献祭用的人[牲畜];牺牲
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sacrificial victim• He had to shift the blame, find a sacrificial victim.• Is she perhaps a sacrificial victim?• And at their feet, a white-clad sacrificial victim, was the body.• Yet again, housing is the mainsacrificial victim.• In most cases, however, the imam was a sort of sacrificial victim.• Now he is Yahweh's sacrificial victim.• And the sacrificial victim is yourself.• They were in the middle of a hideousritual, and they were the sacrificial victims.
6.fashion/style victimFASHIONABLEsomeone who always wears the most fashionable clothes even if they do not look good in them 时尚牺牲品〔指不管是否适合自己总是身着最时髦服装的人〕
nCOLLOCATIONS – Meaning 2: someone who suffers because of something bad that happens or because of an illness
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + victim
a flood/earthquake/cyclone etc victim
Earthquake victims were living in tents in the city's parks.
a famine victim (=someone who has had no food to eat for a long time)
Aid is being shipped to famine victims.
a cancer/AIDS etc victim
He helped raise £2,000 for a dying cancer victim.
an accident/crash victim
The crash victims were rushed to hospital.
an innocent victim
Children are the innocent victims of war.
an unfortunate victim
If you are the unfortunate victim of a tragic accident, this card will tell doctors that you are willing to donate your organs.
victim + NOUN
a victim mentality (=when someone always thinks of themselves as a victim)
Many of us fall into a victim mentality, and blame all our troubles on other people.
phrases
a victim of circumstance (=someone who suffers because of something they cannot control)
She was a victim of circumstance, as she was born at a time when women had no power.
verbs
blame the victim (=to say that someone is responsible for their own bad situation )
It is blaming the victim to ask the woman what she does that makes her husband lose his temper and hit her.
portray somebody as a victim (=to write or talk about someone as though they are not responsible for their bad situation)
She was portrayed as the victim of a loveless marriage.
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victim• victims of domesticabuse• a victim of circumstance• Is that what you meant by killers and victims?• Heart attack victims stand a better chance if they are treated immediately.• One of the bombing victims was dead on arrival in hospital.• They are launching a massiveaidprogram to help the faminevictims.• And the first victims were not black, as you might surmise, but white men.• Our aim is to help victims of crime.• The program was grossly insensitive to Holocaustvictims.• We maintain the hope that Gil will be the last victim.• Children, too, are the main victims of landmines.• a murder victim• She had been the victim of a particularly vicious attack.• It is all too common to blame the victim in rape cases.• If the person's heart was heavy with misdeeds, the Devourer would consume the victim and they would never find peace.• He was ordered to compensate all of the victims of the fire and pay a heavy fine.• In most sexualoffences, the attacker is known to the victim.• The victim was shaken, but physically unharmed.• The victim still had a small piece of metal from the van in his leg, he added.
blaming the victim• The Employment Training Scheme is a classic example of blaming the victim.• There are a range of behaviours and relationships which provide a variety of ways of blaming the victim.• This is more than blaming the victim, it involves making the victim part of the problem.• When does encouraging women to be appropriately cautious amount to blaming the victim?
Originvictim
(1400-1500)Latinvictima“person or animal killed as a religious offering”