sacrifice是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 献祭; 牺牲，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If my career were of that better kind that there was any opportunity or capacity of sacrifice in it, I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you.
-- 'I would recommend him to sacrifice it.
-- Every living creature there held life as of no account, and was demented with a passionate readiness to sacrifice it.
-- 'If the Republic should demand of you the sacrifice of your child herself, you would have no duty but to sacri-fice her.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I was just thinking the very same thing," he said; "how could you sacrifice everything for my sake?
-- And Sergey Ivanovitch put before him the alternative: either you are so undeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.
-- But the nearer the time of departure came, the bitterer was the sacrifice he was making to what he thought his duty.
-- He was a quiet, modest fellow, unmistakably impressed by the knowledge of the officer and the heroic self- sacrifice of the merchant and saying nothing about himself.
-- It was the very busiest working time, when all the peasantry show an extraordinary intensity of self- sacrifice in labor, such as is never shown in any other conditions of life, and would be highly esteemed if the men who showed these qualities themselves thought highly of them, and if it were not repeated every year, and if the results of this intense labor were not so simple.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prospect of so frightful an existence drives these poor creatures to the sacrifice much more than love or religious fanaticism.
-- Sometimes, however, the sacrifice is really voluntary, and it requires the active interference of the Government to prevent it.
-- While Sir Francis was speaking, the guide shook his head several times, and now said: "The sacrifice which will take place to-morrow at dawn is not a voluntary one."
-- "And the sacrifice will take place ""To-morrow, at the first light of dawn."
-- Left an orphan, she was married against her will to the old rajah of Bundelcund; and, knowing the fate that awaited her, she escaped, was retaken, and devoted by the rajah's relatives, who had an interest in her death, to the sacrifice from which it seemed she could not escape.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was noisy in the living-room, he was noisy in the bath, and with some sacrifice he lay awake pretending to snore.
-- By a connection not evident to him he remembered that the Sunday before, in the slummy chapel where he preached during his medical course, he had exalted the sacrifice of the martyrs and they had sung of the blood of the lamb, the fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins, but this meditation he lost, and he lumbered toward Digamma Pi in a fog of pondering pity.
-- There was at the time, in certain places, a doubt as to how benevolent the United States had been to its Little Brothers--Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua--and the editors and politicians were grateful to Martin for this proof of their sacrifice and tender watchfulness.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's all Rodya, precious Rodya, her first born!For such a son who would not sacrifice such a daughter!Oh, loving, over-partial hearts!Why, for his sake we would not shrink even from Sonia's fate.
-- I fancied from all I had heard of you that you would be very glad if the match could be broken off without the sacrifice of worldly advantages.
-- We were left alone, she suddenly flung herself on my neck (for the first time of her own accord), put her little arms round me, kissed me, and vowed that she would be an obedient, faithful, and good wife, would make me happy, would devote all her life, every minute of her life, would sacrifice everything, every-thing, and that all she asks in return is my respect and that she wants 'nothing, nothing more from me, no presents.'
-- So that even if you do sacrifice your brother, you could prove nothing.
-- Vague and objectless anxiety in the present, and in the future a continual sacrifice leading to nothing that was all that lay before him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Abrahamin red going to sacrifice Isaac in blue, and Daniel in yellow castinto a den of green lions, were the most prominent of these.
-- A miserableforeboding that she would yield to, and sustain herself by, thesame feeling in reference to any sacrifice for his sake, hadoppressed me ever since.
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