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victim

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n.受害人,牺牲者,牺牲品

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victim


/'vɪktɪm; `vɪktɪm/
n
1 person, animal or thing thatis injured, killed or destroyed as the result of carelessness,crime or misfortune 被伤害、杀害或毁灭的人、动物或事物
*Many pets are victims of overfeeding. 有许多宠物因喂食过量而遭殃.
* murder, rape victims 谋杀案、强奸案的受害人
* earthquake, accident, strike victims 地震、事故、罢工事件的受难者
* (fig 比喻) He is the victim of his own success, eg because overwork has made him ill. 他成了自己成就的牺牲品(如积劳成疾).
2 (fig 比喻) person who is tricked or fooled 受骗者; 遭愚弄的人
*the victim of a hoax, practical joke, conspiracy, etc 在骗局、恶作剧、阴谋等中上当的人.
3 living creature killed and offered as a religious sacrifice 为祭祀而宰杀的动物; 牺牲
*a sacrificial victim 动物祭品.
4 (idm 习语) fall victim (to sth) be overcome (by sth); succumb (to sth) 被(某事物)降伏; 屈服(于某事物)
*He soon fell victim to her charms. 他很快就让她的魅力给迷住了.

victim


n[C]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Latin;Origin: victima 'person or animal killed as a religious offering']
someone who has been attacked, robbed, or murdered
 The victim received head injuries from which she died a week later.
rape/murder etc victim
 Most homicide victims are under 30.
victim of
 victims of crime
 a credit card fraud ring that stole millions of dollars from unsuspecting victims
someone who suffers because of something bad that happens or because of an illness
victim of
 victims of age discrimination
 He was the victim of an administrative error.
 a massive aid programme for the famine victims
 AIDS victims and other patients who are terminally ill
 All these people are innocent victims .
 He was used to being in charge, not being the victim of circumstance .
 Saying that the unemployed 'don't want to work' is a classic case of blaming the victim .
fall victim to sthwritten
a) to be attacked, killed etc, or to get a particular illness, especially one that kills
 One theory is that the hostages fell victim to bandits.
b) to be badly affected or destroyed by a situation
 Many small businesses have fallen victim to the recession.
be a victim of its own success
to be badly affected by some unexpected results of being very successful
 There are now so many tourists that the area has become a victim of its own success.
sacrificial victim
a person or animal that is killed and offered as a sacrifice (=gift) to a god
fashion/style victim
someone who always wears the most fashionable clothes even if they do not look good in them
COLLOCATES for sense 2
be the victim of something
famine/earthquake/flood etc victim
cancer/AIDS etc victim
accident/crash victim
innocent victim
victim of circumstance (=someone who suffers because of something they cannot control)
victim mentality (=when someone always thinks of themselves as a victim)
blame the victim

1. We unemployed share a social prejudice similar to that of the rape (强奸) victim.
    我们失业者都经受过类似于强奸受害者所经受的社会歧视。

2. The abolitionists are in being more sorry for the murderer than for his victim.
    主张废除死刑者同情凶杀儿犯甚于同情受害者。

3. Naked, except for a light hospital gown, she is so very small and light that she seems like a victim of some terrible famine.
    除了一件浅色的病号服,她什么也没穿。她又小又轻,简直像一个严重饥荒的受害者。

4. A victim of vicious calumnies
    恶毒诬蔑的受害者.

5. A man without an education is an unfortunate victim of adverse circumstances deprived.
    没有受过教育的人是境况不佳的不幸牺牲品.

6. A man without an education, many of us believe, is an unfortunate victim of adverse circumstances, deprived of one of the greatest twentieth-century opportunities.
    我们许多人都相信,一个没有受过教育的人,是逆境的牺牲品,被剥夺了20世纪的最优越的机会之一。

7. "If I start feeling like a victim, that makes me bitter," he said. And why be bitter?
    "如果我开始觉得自己是个受害者,我会很痛苦的。为什么要痛苦呢?"他说。

8. Many operations which today are quite straightforward and from which patients recover quickly, such as removing an appendix, would never have been attempted at all, and the victim would probably have died without anyone really knowing why.
    有许多今天很好做而且手术后病人可以很快康复的像切除阑尾一类的手术在当时根本不会有人去尝试。病人可能死了,而没有人知道病因何在,

9. With the caption ´She was yet another victim, reduced to a screaming wreck´.
    图的文字说明:"她是又一个受害者,成了只会尖叫的可怜虫。"

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