sacrificing
present participle ofsacrifice
单词 | sacrificing |
释义 | sacrificing present participle ofsacrifice sacrifice verb uk/ˈsæk.rɪ.faɪs/us/ˈsæk.rə.faɪs/sacrificeverb(GIVE UP)C1[T] to give up something that isvaluableto you inordertohelpanotherperson: Many women sacrificeinterestingcareersfortheirfamilies.
Stop having or doing something
sacrificeverb(KILL)[IorT] tokillananimalor apersonandofferthem to agodorgods Killing
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Religious practices Idiombe sacrificed on the altar ofsomething Examplesofsacrificingsacrificing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. This is an instance ofsacrificingmodeling power to ensure that the overall system is realized exactly. From theCambridge English Corpus Moreover, this high-cost sugar was only obtained bysacrificinga larger tonnage, with a lower unit cost, in the next harvest. From theCambridge English Corpus In the manufacturing domain, shop floor operators prefer to have a small amount of highly intuitive rules bysacrificinga small loss in predictive accuracy. From theCambridge English Corpus Occasional imprecise splicing can generate new proteins assembled from parts of old ones withoutsacrificingthe original genes. From theCambridge English Corpus It has been shown that this can be done in a way that greatly improves the functional equivalence of the measure withoutsacrificingcross-time comparability. From theCambridge English Corpus Insacrificingmarriages deemed undesirable and striving for economic independence, women frequently displayed a ' waywardness ' and boldness that signified their growing strength and resilience. From theCambridge English Corpus They required a solution to the problem of how to minimize the risks of overexposure to princely rule withoutsacrificingits benefits. From theCambridge English Corpus Or martyrs,sacrificingourselves on the altar of a greater social good. From theCambridge English Corpus Such women should have refrained from extra-pair mating,sacrificingsome genetic benefits they might otherwise have obtained. From theCambridge English Corpus In many cases believers are notsacrificingat all, but simply (and rationally) exchanging goods or labor for desired services. From theCambridge English Corpus An emphasis in section 3 is on how abstraction capabilities can be supported withoutsacrificingconcreteness. From theCambridge English Corpus In this way, the past finds itself trapped within an insidious cultural exchange andsacrificingwhat integrity it ever had. From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, it may be concluded that the output subjects successfully learned the target form withoutsacrificingcomprehension. From theCambridge English Corpus Productoriented architecture students consider that anything is worthsacrificingto achieve the object they want. From theCambridge English Corpus Some stories tell of peoplesacrificingtheir lives to save others; however, just as pertinent are those that highlight the importance of life over materialism. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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