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Killed Person Victim Animal Notion Latin German Weihen

正面 1065.victim
英 ['vɪktɪm]美 ['vɪktɪm]

背面
释义:
n. 受害人;牺牲品;牺牲者
例句:
1. The victim suffered a dreadful injury and lost a lot of blood.受害者受了重伤,大量失血。

联想:说话“冒失”的就是嘴。
victim 受害者来自拉丁语victima,祭品,献祭的人或动物,来自PIE*weik,选择,选出祭品,牺牲,词源同Wicca,witch。由祭品引申词义受害者。
victimvictim: [15] Victim originally denoted a ‘person or animal killed as a sacrifice’; the more general notion of ‘someone who suffers from or is killed by something’ is a secondary development. The word was borrowed from Latin victima, which may be related to German weihen ‘consecrate’.victim (n.)late 15c., "living creature killed and offered as a sacrifice to a deity or supernatural power," from Latin victima "person or animal killed as a sacrifice." Perhaps distantly connected to Old English wig "idol," Gothic weihs "holy," German weihen "consecrate" (compare Weihnachten "Christmas") on notion of "a consecrated animal." Sense of "person who is hurt, tortured, or killed by another" is recorded from 1650s; meaning "person oppressed by some power or situation" is from 1718. Weaker sense of "person taken advantage of" is recorded from 1781."

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