单词 | be sacrificed on the altar of something |
释义 | be sacrificed on the altar of something phrase [VERB inflects, oft PHR n] See full dictionary entry for altar If you say that someone or something is sacrificed at the altar of another thing, you mean they suffer or are destroyed because of that thing. Often it feels as though value has been sacrificed at the altar of slick marketing. |
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