self-sacrifice

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词形变化

self-sacrifices 复数 self-sacrifices

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The giving up of one's own benefit for the good of others.

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    Caring for a loved one with a chronic illness inevitably involves self-sacrifice.

  2. 2.

    The act of making the ultimate sacrifice of giving up one's life for a cause.

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    His brave self-sacrifice won him a posthumous medal, but I think he'd have preferred to receive it in person.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

selflessness

上位词 1

cooperation

下位词 5

denial abnegation self-abnegation self-denial self-renunciation

词源

From self- + sacrifice.

来源：wiktionary