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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet, I was so certain that the prospect of such a sacrifice afar off,must destroy the happiness of Agnes; and I was so sure, from hermanner, of its being unseen by her then, and having cast noshadow on her yet; that I could as soon have injured her, as givenher any warning of what impended.
-- If I rang thebell impatiently, after half a dozen unavailing modest pulls, andshe appeared at last- which was not by any means to be reliedupon- she would appear with a reproachful aspect, sink breathlesson a chair near the door, lay her hand upon her nankeen bosom,and become so ill, that I was glad, at any sacrifice of brandy oranything else, to get rid of her.
-- 'It may be a sacrifice,' said Mrs. Micawber, 'to immure one's-self ina cathedral town; but surely, Mr. Copperfield, if it is a sacrifice inme, it is much more a sacrifice in a man of Mr. Micawber'sabilities.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The preparing and the going abroad in such weather, with the sacrifice of his children after dinner, were evils, were disagreeables at least, which Mr. John Knight-ley did not by any means like; he anticipated nothing in the visit that could be at all worth the purchase; and the whole of their drive to the vicarage was spent by him in express-ing his discontent.
-- Now, according to my idea of Mrs. Churchill, it would be most natural, that while she makes no sacrifice for the comfort of the husband, to whom she owes every thing, while she exercises incessant caprice towards him, she should frequently be governed by the nephew, to whom 150 Emmashe owes nothing at all.'
-- A man who felt rightly would say at once, simply and resolutely, to Mrs. Churchill 'Every sacrifice of mere pleasure you will always find me ready to make to your convenience; but I must go and see my father immedi-ately.
-- I hoped I was perfectly equal to any sacrifice of that descrip-tion.
-- But the plan which had arisen on the sacrifice of this, he trusted his dearest Emma would not find in any respect objectionable; it was, that he should be received at Hartfield; that so long as her father's happi-ness in other words his life required Hartfield to continue her home, it should be his likewise.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He made the sacrifice because he was a father; he went into voluntary exile.
-- I know enough of our affairs at home to know all that such a sacrifice means, and you must not think that I would lightly ask you to make it; I should be a monster if I could.
-- 莽卢卢41 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 He wrote to ask each of his sisters for their savings--would they despoil themselves for him, and keep the sacrifice a secret from the family?
-- de Beauseant (so they hoped) would gradually become reconciled to the idea of the marriage, and in the end would be brought to sacrifice d'Ajuda's morning visits to the exigencies of a man's career, exigencies which she must have foreseen.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was easily led by the sympathy which he evinced to use the lan-guage of my heart, to give utterance to the burning ardour of my soul, and to say, with all the fervour that warmed me, how gladly I would sacrifice my fortune, my existence, my every hope, to the furtherance of my enterprise.
-- Justine, thus received in our family, learned the duties of a servant, a condition which, in our fortunate country, does not include the idea of igno-rance and a sacrifice of the dignity of a human being.
-- For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the di-vine ideas of liberty and self sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers.
-- A thousand times would I have shed my own blood, drop by drop, to have saved their lives; but I could not, my father, indeed I could not sacrifice the whole human race.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh, we just couldn't with poor Charlie dead only a " "I know how you feel but there isn't any sacrifice too great for the Cause," broke in Mrs. Elsing in a soft voicethat settled matters.
-- A Cause they loved as much asthey loved their men, a Cause they served with their hands and their hearts, a Cause they talked about, thought about,dreamed about a Cause to which they would sacrifice these men if need be, and bear their loss as proudly as the menbore their battle flags.
-- In a sudden flash of self-knowledge that made her mouth pop open with astonishment, she realized that she didnot share with these women their fierce pride, their desire to sacrifice themselves and everything they had for theCause.
-- I know what a sacrifice it must have been for you tocome out tonight.
-- "But the McLure girls who were to take this booth were calledaway and there was no one else, so Melanie and I " "No sacrifice is too great for the Cause."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had believed in the best parlor as a most elegant saloon; I had believed in the front door, as a mysterious portal of the Temple of State whose solemn opening was attended with a sacrifice of roast fowls; I had believed in the kitchen as a chaste though not magnificent apartment; I had believed in the forge as the glowing road to manhood and independence.
-- What I look at is the sacrifice of so much portable property.
-- The Aged was likewise occupied in preparing a similar sacrifice for the altar of Hymen.
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