| 释义 |
sacrifice /sakˈri-fīs, sometimes (esp poetic) -fīz/ noun- The slaughter of an animal, person, etc on an altar as an offering to a god
- Any offering, tangible or symbolic, to a god
- Christ's offering of himself as mankind's saviour (theology)
- Destruction, surrender, or foregoing of anything valued for the sake of anything else, esp a higher consideration
- Loss sustained by selling something at less than its value
- A victim offered in sacrifice
- A play where a batter deliberately makes an out in order to enable a baserunner to score or gain a base (baseball)
transitive verb- To offer up in sacrifice
- To make a sacrifice of
- To give up, surrender, for a higher good or for mere advantage
- To make a victim of
- To sell at a loss
- To allow to come to destruction or evil
intransitive verb To offer sacrifice(s) ORIGIN: L sacrificium, from sacer sacred, and facere to make sacˈrificer noun sacrificial /-fishˈl/ adjective - Of or relating to sacrifice
- (of an object or substance) protecting another from corrosion by its own exposure to and damage by the corrosive, as in sacrificial anode, sacrificial plate, sacrificial metal (technology)
sacrifiˈcially adverb sacˈrify transitive verb and intransitive verb (pap (Spenser) sacˈrifide) (obsolete) To sacrifice |