sacrifice

• n.犠牲；捧げ物；供物
• vt.犠牲；捧げ物；損で売る
• vi.

sacri-, sacred, -fic, to do, 語源的にはfact, benefitと同じ。

sacrifice (n.)

late 13c., "offering of something (especially a life) to a deity as an act of propitiation or homage;" mid-14c., "that which is offered in sacrifice," from Old French sacrifise "sacrifice, offering" (12c.), from Latin sacrificium, from sacrificus "performing priestly functions or sacrifices," from sacra "sacred rites" (properly neuter plural of sacer "sacred;" see sacred) + root of facere "to do, perform" (see factitious).

Latin sacrificium is glossed in Old English by ansegdniss. Sense of "act of giving up one thing for another; something given up for the sake of another" is first recorded 1590s. Baseball sense first attested 1880.

sacrifice (v.)

c. 1300, "to offer something (to a deity, as a sacrifice)," from sacrifice (n.). Meaning "surrender, give up, suffer to be lost" is from 1706. Related: Sacrificed; sacrificing. Agent noun forms include sacrificer, sacrificator (both 16c., the latter from Latin); and sacrificulist (17c.).

1. He was willing to make any sacrifice for peace.

彼は平和のためにいかなる犠牲を払っても喜んでいる。

2.No one is worth a great deal of sacrifice .

大きな犠牲を払う価値のある人はいません。

3.The great magicians of old always invoked their gods with sacrifice .

昔、有名な魔法使いたちはよく生け贄で彼らが祭った神の助けを祈っていた。

4.I thanked my parents for all their self- sacrifice on my behalf.

私は両親が私のためにしてくれたすべての自己犠牲に感謝します。

5.We sacrifice our personal lives to our work.

私たちは仕事のためにプライベートを犠牲にしました。