Sacrifice



GRE 考研

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 牺牲; v. 宰牲祭神
• ［类］ worship : sacrifice / prediction : augury ( 宰牲祭神是一种敬神活动 / 占卜是一种预测)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin sacrificium, from sacr-, sacer + facere to make — more at do
• Date: 13th century
• 1. an act of offering to a deity something precious; especially the killing of a victim on an altar
• 2. something offered in sacrifice
• 3.
  • a. destruction or surrender of something for the sake of something else
  • b. something given up or lost <the sacrifices made by parents>
• 4. loss <goods sold at a sacrifice>
• 5. sacrifice hit

II. verb (-ficed; -ficing)

• Date: 14th century
• transitive verb
  • 1. to offer as a sacrifice
  • 2. to suffer loss of, give up, renounce, injure, or destroy especially for an ideal, belief, or end
  • 3. to sell at a loss
  • 4. to advance (a base runner) by means of a sacrifice hit
  • 5. to kill (an animal) as part of a scientific experiment
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to make or perform the rites of a sacrifice
  • 2. to make a sacrifice hit in baseball
• ? sacrificer noun

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