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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Three stumps of masts, broken off about two feet above the bridge, showed that the vessel had had to sacrifice its masts.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next happened when he left the civil service, and, desiring to sacrifice his life, he entered, during the war, the military service.
-- The idea that for the sake of moral satisfaction he would sacrifice everything and marry her this morning particularly affected him.
-- "And my conscience demands that I sacrifice my liberty in expiation of my sin, and my decision to marry her, although but fictitiously, and follow her wherever she may be sent, remains unaltered," he said to himself, with spiteful obstinacy, and, leaving the hospital, he made his way with resolute step to the prison gate.
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