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单词 to sacrifice at the altar of
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to sacrifice (a person or thing) at (also on) the altar of
P1. to sacrifice (a person or thing) at (also on) the altar of: to sacrifice, give up, or make (a person or thing) suffer in the interests of or to attain the thing specified.
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1770 Gentleman's & London Mag. Apr. 208/1 I..exhorted the advocates for that expulsion, to sacrifice a private resentment..at the altar of public tranquillity.
1847 Med. Times 16 434/3 The public benefit is sacrificed at the altar of personal ambition.
1993 J. K. Hall tr. T. Terzani Goodnight, Mister Lenin (1994) viii. 123 In 1933 there were little more than three million [Kazakh people]. The others had been sacrificed on the altar of collectivization.
2007 Guardian 22 Mar. (Technology section) 3/5 A new cinema..where narrative drive is sacrificed at the altar of fetishised hyperviolence.
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