sacrifice是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 to give up something that is valuable to you in order to help another person -- 犧牲；獻出

  • Many women sacrifice interesting careers for their families. 許多女性爲了家庭犧牲了自己感興趣的工作。

• 1 to kill an animal or a person and offer them to a god or gods -- 獻祭；以（人或動物）爲祭品

• 2 the act of giving up something that is valuable to you in order to help someone else -- 犧牲；獻出

  • We had to make sacrifices in order to pay for our children's education. 爲了支付孩子們的教育費用，我們不得不作出犧牲。

  • They cared for their disabled son for 27 years, at great personal sacrifice. 27年來，他們爲照料殘障的兒子作出了偉大的個人犧牲。

• 3 the act of killing an animal or person and offering them to a god or gods, or the animal, etc. that is offered -- 獻祭，供奉；祭品，供品

  • The people offered a lamb on the altar as a sacrifice for their sins. 人們在祭壇上獻祭一頭羔羊作爲贖罪的祭品。