Sacrifice

['sækrɪfaɪs]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) (baseball) an out that advances the base runners.

(noun.) the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity.

(noun.) personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective).

(noun.) a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value; 'he had to sell his car at a considerable sacrifice'.

(verb.) kill or destroy; 'The animals were sacrificed after the experiment'; 'The general had to sacrifice several soldiers to save the regiment'.

(verb.) make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals.

(verb.) endure the loss of; 'He gave his life for his children'; 'I gave two sons to the war'.

(verb.) sell at a loss.

卡米尔錄入--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.

(n.) Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation.

(n.) Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing; hence, also, the thing so devoted or given up; as, the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest.

(n.) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.

(n.) To make an offering of; to consecrate or present to a divinity by way of expiation or propitiation, or as a token acknowledgment or thanksgiving; to immolate on the altar of God, in order to atone for sin, to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep.

(n.) Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering.

(n.) To destroy; to kill.

(n.) To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value.

(v. i.) To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.

整理:李奥娜

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Immolate, offer up.[2]. Surrender, give up.

n. [1]. Immolation.[2]. Offering, oblation.[3]. Surrender.

艾达校對

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Offer, immolate, destroy, surrender, forego

ANT:Reserve, retain, appropriate, withhold

SYN:Offering, oblation, immolation, surrender, destruction, atonement,propitiation, appeasement, expiation

ANT:Reservation, appropriation, retention, salvation, rescue, offence,transgression

手打:莉莲

解釋/意思:

v.t. to offer up esp. on the altar of a divinity: to destroy or give up for something else: to devote or destroy with loss or suffering: to kill.—v.i. to make offerings to God.—n. the fundamental institution of all natural religions primarily a sacramental meal at which the communicants are a deity and his worshippers and the elements the flesh and blood of a sacred victim: the act of sacrificing or offering to a deity esp. a victim on an altar: that which is sacrificed or offered: destruction or loss of anything to gain some object: that which is given up destroyed or lost for some end: mere loss of profit.—n. Sacrif′icant one who offers a sacrifice.—adj. Sacrif′icātory offering sacrifice.—n. Sac′rificer a priest.—adj. Sacrifi′cial relating to or consisting in sacrifice: performing sacrifice.—adv. Sacrifi′cially.—Sacrifice hit in base-ball a hit to enable another player to score or to gain a base.—Eucharistic sacrifice the supposed constant renewal of the sacrifice of Christ in the mass.

校對:迈拉