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Examples:offer one's life in sacrifice—a blood sacrifice (arch.)—feed the starving ghosts (i.e. offer sacrifice to protect the departed spirit)—"flying fish family", family who sacrifice everything send their children abroad to study—imperial ancestral sacrifice—abandon self for others (idiom); to sacrifice oneself to help the people—summer sacrifice for rain—be buried alive as sacrifice (together with husband or superior)—a true gentleman will sacrifice his life for a friend who understands him, as a woman makes herself beautiful for her sweetheart—offer sacrifice (to Gods or ancestors)—beast slaughtered for sacrifice—formal wailing while offering sacrifice the departed—offer sacrifice (to ancestors)—triennial sacrifice ancestors—animal sacrifice (a God or ancestral spirit)—sacrifice oneself in a just cause—heroically sacrifice one's life—sacrificing one's life generously (idiom); sacrifice oneself fervently to the cause—smear one's lips with the blood of a sacrifice as a means of pledging allegiance (old)—offer sacrifice (to one's ancestors)—sacrifice one's life for—would rather sacrifice one's life than one's principles—Eid al-Azha Festival of sacrifice on tenth of twelfth month of Muslim lunar calendar—generic term for a sacrifice the gods—abandon self for others (idiom, from Analects); to sacrifice one's own interest for other people—car slave, sb forced sacrifice quality of life to buy or maintain a car—pray for luck and sacrifice to avoid disasters (i.e. traditional superstitions)—die without regrets (idiom); to sacrifice oneself without hesitation—sacrifice for avoiding calamity—sacrifice one's life in a crisis—rook sacrifice save the king (in Chinese chess); fig. to protect a senior figure by blaming an underling—I beg you partake of this sacrifice (used at the end of an elegiac address)—heroically sacrificing one's life (idiom); sacrifice oneself fervently to the cause—sacrifice oneself for love—sacrifice oneself torturously working for another or for a group—fig. attach a great importance to friendship, up to the point of being able to sacrifice oneself for it—be willing to sacrifice everything one has [idiom.]—sacrifice one's wealth to save the state [idiom.]— |