sacrifice² v 1 [T] to give up something important or valuable in order to get something 牺牲,献出: sacrifice sth for sth It's not worth sacrificing your health for your job. 你为工作而牺牲自己的健康不值得。 2 [I,T] to offer something, especially an animal, to a god in a ceremony, often by killing it 献祭; 以…为祭品