英语词汇sacrifice怎么读，是什么意思，单词翻译、读音、固定搭配用法和短语词组及例句-英汉双解词典

sacrifice

sækrɪfaɪs  ˈsækrəˌfaɪs 

Word forms: plural , 3rd person singular present tense sacrifices, present participle sacrificing, past tense , past participle sacrificed

1 VERB 牺牲;舍弃;献出 If you sacrifice something that is valuable or important, you give it up, usually to obtain something else for yourself or for other people. 牺牲;舍弃;献出

She sacrificed family life to her career. [V n + to/for]

她为事业舍弃了家庭。
Her husband's pride was a small thing to sacrifice for their children's security. [V to/for n]

为了孩子们的安全，舍弃她丈夫的尊严不算什么。
Kitty Aldridge has sacrificed all for her first film. [VERB noun]

姬蒂·奥尔德里奇为自己的首部影片牺牲了一切。
He sacrificed himself and so saved his country. [VERB pronoun-reflexive]

他牺牲自己，以此拯救了他的祖国。

SYN give up, abandon, relinquish [formal] , lose

Sacrifice is also a noun.

She made many sacrifices to get Anita a good education.

为了让安妮塔接受良好的教育，她作出了很多牺牲。
He was willing to make any sacrifice for peace.

他愿意为和平作出任何牺牲。

2See also:self-sacrifice

3 VERB 献祭;以…为祭品 To sacrifice an animal or person means to kill them in a special religious ceremony as an offering to a god. 献祭;以…为祭品 [Also V n to n]

The priest sacrificed a chicken. [VERB noun]

祭司用一只鸡作祭品。
Two white bulls were sacrificed and a feast was held. [VERB noun]

献祭了两头白牛，并举行了盛宴。

SYN offer, slaughter, offer up, immolate [literary]

Sacrifice is also a noun.

...animal sacrifices to the gods.

祭神的牺牲

Quotations

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few Winston Churchill speech to the House of Commons

Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart W.B. Yeats Easter 1916

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends Bible: St. John

Word Link

sacr ≈ holy : sacrament, sacred, sacrifice

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