martyr

英 ['mɑːtə] 美 ['mɑrtɚ]

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※ 提供单词"martyr"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

martyr 殉道者

来自拉丁语martyr,来自希腊语martys,见证者，-r,所有格后缀，来自PIE*smer,mer,记住，记忆，词源同memory,remember.后引申词义殉道的人，为教而牺牲的人。

martyr: martyr: [OE] Etymologically, a martyr is a ‘witness’ – that was the original meaning of Greek mártur, which came ultimately from Indo-European *mer ‘remember’ (source of English memory, mourn, remember, etc). In Christian usage, the notion of someone dying as a ‘witness’ to their faith led to the application of mártur to ‘martyr’, and it was in this sense that it passed via Latin martyr into Old English.
=> memory, mourn, remember
martyr (n.): Old English martyr, from Late Latin martyr, from Doric Greek martyr, earlier martys (genitive martyros), in Christian use "martyr," literally "witness," probably related to mermera "care, trouble," from mermairein "be anxious or thoughtful," from PIE *(s)mrtu- (cognates: Sanskrit smarati "remember," Latin memor "mindful;" see memory).

Adopted directly into most Germanic languages, but Norse substituted native formation pislarvattr, literally "torture-witness." General sense of "constant sufferer" is from 1550s. Martyr complex "exaggerated desire for self-sacrifice" is attested from 1920.
martyr (v.): Old English martyrian, from martyr (see martyr (n.)). Middle English also had a verb martyrize.

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1. Jennifer responded with anger and played the martyr role.: 珍妮弗做出愤怒的反应，开始大倒苦水。

3. Ellsworth was a martyr to his sense of honour and responsibility.: 埃尔斯沃思深为自己的荣誉感和责任感所累。

5. The martyr laid down his life for the cause of national independence.: 这位烈士是为了民族独立的事业而献身的.