Sacrifice

(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.

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• At immense personal sacrifice I followed the dictates of my own ingenuity, my own humanity, my own caution, and took her identity instead. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• He deserved it all--all labour, all devotion, all sacrifice; I would have toiled up a scaleless Alp, to pluck a flower that would please him. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Because you delight in sacrifice. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Let us have no more troubles and heart-burnings that any sacrifice of mine can prevent. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• So shall you give me protection without sacrifice on your part, or the pretext of requiring any requital from me. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• But you must not sacrifice yourself to her from any sense of justice, replied Eustacia quickly. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He called it a sacrifice, and demanded it of her goodness and self-command as such. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• To be sure, he answered, and went away laughing to the sacrifices. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• A young man really well deserves constant support and patronage,' looking at the Doctor, 'who makes such sacrifices. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The primary duty of this priesthood was concerned with the worship of and the sacrifices to the god of the temple. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Son of Heaven offered sacrifices for all the Chinese. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The rich heard them mentioned with wonder, but were silent, from a sense of shame at the difference between her sacrifices and their own. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It had no temples, and since it had no sacrifices it had no sacred order of priests. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A young man for whom two such elders had devoted themselves would indeed be culpable if he threw himself away and made their sacrifices vain. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• In order to get a start in his retreat he sacrificed his sick and wounded. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They are not ends in the sense of finalities to which everything must be bent and sacrificed. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In both regulations, the sacred rights of private property are sacrificed to the supposed interests of public revenue. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• There were families in London who would have sacrificed a year's income to receive such an honour at the hands of those great ladies. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Advantageous as would be the alliance, and long standing and public as was the engagement, her happiness must not be sacrificed to it. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I am not quite satisfied, but I can't blame you, for I know how willingly you sacrificed your vanity, as you call it, to your love. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• In days of happiness I have often repeated to myself, with a grateful heart and exulting spirit, all that Raymond sacrificed for me. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• How shall we secure breadth of outlook without sacrificing efficiency of execution? 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The common men were everywhere sacrificing life and health for what they believed to be the common good of the state. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A consistent result could be obtained only by sacrificing the modern or the ancient observations. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Of sacrificing myself I made no difficulty but my heart is pained by what I see; it _must_ have and give solace. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• There was a frontispiece to the volume, representing Abraham sacrificing Isaac. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Morse, of Boston, developed the cutting of diamonds to its present perfection by fearlessly sacrificing weight to get proportion. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• When you see the chorus throw incense on the altar, think not that they are sacrificing to the wine-god of their ancestors. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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