sacrifice

英 ['sækrɪfaɪs] 美 ['sækrɪfaɪs]

解释

※ 提供单词"sacrifice"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。

sacrifice 牺牲，献祭，祭祀

sacri-,神圣的，-fic,做，词源同 fact,benefice.引申诸相关词义。

sacrifice (n.): late 13c., "offering of something (especially a life) to a deity as an act of propitiation or homage;" mid-14c., "that which is offered in sacrifice," from Old French sacrifise "sacrifice, offering" (12c.), from Latin sacrificium, from sacrificus "performing priestly functions or sacrifices," from sacra "sacred rites" (properly neuter plural of sacer "sacred;" see sacred) + root of facere "to do, perform" (see factitious).

Latin sacrificium is glossed in Old English by ansegdniss. Sense of "act of giving up one thing for another; something given up for the sake of another" is first recorded 1590s. Baseball sense first attested 1880.
sacrifice (v.): c. 1300, "to offer something (to a deity, as a sacrifice)," from sacrifice (n.). Meaning "surrender, give up, suffer to be lost" is from 1706. Related: Sacrificed; sacrificing. Agent noun forms include sacrificer, sacrificator (both 16c., the latter from Latin); and sacrificulist (17c.).

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3. The great magicians of old always invoked their gods with sacrifice.: 旧时一些有名的巫师经常以祭品祈求他们所供奉神灵的助佑。

4. I thanked my parents for all their self-sacrifice on my behalf.: 我感谢父母为我做出的所有自我牺牲。