sacrifice
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈsæk.rɪ.faɪs]
- 美式音标 [ˈsæk.rə.faɪs]
- 国际音标 ['sækrifais]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n.牺牲；祭品；供奉
- vt.牺牲；亏本出售；供奉
- vi.献祭；(棒球)作牺牲一击
词源解说
- 13世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自古法语的sacrifise，意为祭祀品；最初源自拉丁语的sacrificium，意为祭祀。
词根记忆
- sacr(神圣的) + i + fic(做) + e→牺牲是神圣的做法→牺牲
- sacr(神圣的) + i + fice(做)→为了神圣的事情而作出牺牲→牺牲；献身
- sacr(神圣的) + i + fic(做) + e→为了神圣的事情而去做→牺牲，献祭
- sacri(神圣的) + fic(做) + e→为了神圣的事情而去做→牺牲
- sacr(神圣的) + i + fic(做) + e→供奉是很神圣的→供奉，牺牲
- sacr(神圣的) + i + fice(做)→牺牲是神圣的做法
- sacr(神圣的) + i + fice(做)→为了神圣的事情而去做→牺牲，奉献
用法辨析
- sacrifice用作名词时基本意思是“祭品”,转化为动词意为“以…作为祭品”,引申可表示某人为了更重要、更珍贵的人或理想而“奉献”或“牺牲”自己的利益、事业等,含有自我克制的意味,有时还可表示“贱卖”。
- sacrifice只用作及物动词,接名词或代词作宾语。表示“为…牺牲”时,常与介词for或to连用。可用于被动结构。
- sacrifice还常接动词不定式作目的状语。
v. (动词)
英汉例句
- There were complaints that it was demanding too much sacrifice on the part of ordinary people.
人们报怨要老百姓作出的牺牲太多了。 - Abraham was about to sacrifice Issac.
亚伯拉罕正要用艾瑟克作祭品。
用作名词 (n.)
用作动词 (v.)
用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.
词组短语
- fall a sacrifice to 成为…的牺牲品
- fear no sacrifice 不怕牺牲
- make 〔offer〕 a sacrifice 作出牺牲
- great 〔useless〕 sacrifice 巨大〔无用〕的牺牲
- needless 〔unnecessary〕 sacrifice 不必要的牺牲
- at any sacrifice 不惜任何牺牲
- by the sacrifice of principles 牺牲原则
用作名词 (n.)
动词+～
形容词+～
介词+～
英英字典
- (GIVE UP) to give up something that is valuable to you in order to help another person
- (KILL) to kill an animal or a person and offer them to a god or gods
- (GIVING UP) the act of giving up something that is valuable to you in order to help someone else
- (KILLING) the act of killing an animal or person and offering them to a god or gods, or the animal, etc. that is offered
- To sacrifice an animal or person means to kill them in a special religious ceremony as an offering to a god.
- Sacrifice is also a noun.
- If you sacrifice something that is valuable or important, you give it up, usually to obtain something else for yourself or for other people.
- Sacrifice is also a noun.