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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Glenarvan was blind and obstinate, and determined to sacrifice himself at all hazards, when suddenly he felt himself violently pushed back.
-- Who is disposed, then, to sacrifice himself for his companions and carry our instructions to Melbourne?"
-- Glenarvan's party was not so numerous that it could afford to sacrifice another member of it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You are also forgetting, most excel-lent prince, that you are with friends, a select company; you cannot sacrifice them to these gentlemen, and it is only for you to have them turned out this instant.
-- 'Excellency,' he said, impulsively, 'if you want a reliable man for the night, I am ready to sacrifice myself for my friend such a soul as he has!I have long thought him a great man, excellency!My article showed my lack of educa-tion, but when he criticizes he scatters pearls!'
-- Well, prince, here is Keller, absolutely at your service command him! ready to sacrifice himself even to die in case of need.'
-- 'Oh, make a sacrifice of yourself!That sort of thing be-comes you well, you know.
-- 'I cannot sacrifice myself so, though I admit I did wish to do so once.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But of this we will take thought hereafter; for the present, let us draw a ship into the sea, and find a crew for her expressly; let us put a hecatomb on board, and let us send Chryseis also; further, let some chief man among us be in command, either Ajax, or Idomeneus, or yourself, son of Peleus, mighty warrior that you are, that we may of-fer sacrifice and appease the the anger of the god.'
-- Then they offered hecatombs of bulls and goats without blemish on the sea-shore, and the smoke with the savour of their sacrifice rose curling up towards heaven.
-- The Achaeans are now taking the girl in a ship to Chryse, and sending gifts of sacrifice to the god; but the heralds have just taken from my tent the daughter of Briseus, whom the Achaeans had awarded to myself.
-- 'Chryses,' said he, 'King Agamemnon has sent me to bring you back your child, and to offer sacrifice to Apollo on behalf of the Danaans, that we may propitiate the god, who has now brought sorrow upon the Argives.'
-- There they lighted their fires at their tents and got dinner, offering sacrifice every man to one or other of the gods, and praying each one of them that he might live to come out of the fight.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The most positive mandate from him who seemed the acknowledged leader, was liable to be violated at each moment by any rash hand that might choose to sacrifice a victim to the manes of some dead friend or relative.
-- Magua had so artfully blended the natural sympathies with the religious superstition of his auditors, that their minds, already prepared by custom to sacrifice a victim to the manes of their countrymen, lost ev-ery vestige of humanity in a wish for revenge.
-- But, while he was making this ostensible sacrifice to gen-eral considerations, Magua never lost sight of his individual motives.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You are always prepared to sacrifice your principles for a repartee," he answered.
-- He was single-hearted in his aim, and to pursue it he was willing to sacrifice not only himself many can do that but others.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only it had the inconvenience of necessitating the sacrifice of a piece of handkerchief.
-- The perimeter of the corral was then traced by the engineer, and they would then have proceeded to fell the trees necessary for the construction of the palisade, but as the opening up of the road had already necessitated the sacrifice of a considerable number, those were brought and supplied a hundred stakes, which were firmly fixed in the ground.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I have entered upon a speculation which has proved a baffler; and a Being of brightness and beauty will be offered up a sacrifice at Cheggs's altar.
-- These complimentary expressions were uttered in a somewhat absent and distracted manner; for the unfortunate lawyer, besides having a bad cold in his head, had got wet in coming, and would have willingly borne some pecuniary sacrifice if he could have shifted his present raw quarters to a warm room, and dried himself at a fire.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He then for the first time understood all the injustice of private ownership of land, and being one of those to whom any sacrifice in the name of moral duty was a lofty spiritual enjoyment, he forthwith divided the land he had inherited from his father among the peasants.
-- In Nekhludoff, as in all people, there were two beings; one spiritual, who sought only such happiness for himself as also benefited others; and the animal being, seeking his own happiness for the sake of which he is willing to sacrifice that of the world.
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