| 词汇 | self-sacrificing |
| 释义 | self-sacrificing adjective approvinguk /ˌselfˈsæk.rɪ.faɪ.sɪŋ/ us /ˌselfˈsæk.rə.faɪ.sɪŋ/ A self-sacrificing person gives up what they want so that other people can have what they want: 自我牺牲 These people were unselfish, self-sacrificing, and sincerely concerned about the general good.这些人是无私的、具有自我牺牲精神的，真诚地关心大众的利益。 His courage and self-sacrificing devotion to duty resulted in the loss of his life.他的勇气和自我牺牲精神让他献出了自己的生命。 See self-sacrifice Don't even think about making some noble self-sacrificing gesture. They were extremely decent, self-sacrificing parents who paid for me and my brother to go to school. We elect self-sacrificing people who put the welfare of the community ahead of personal advancement. Stop having or doing something abdicate abdication bandh bomb bomb out break with something butt forfeit forfeitable forgo forsake forswear give up the ghostidiom lay relinquishment self-denying self-denyingly self-renouncing self-renunciation throw Examples of self-sacrificingself-sacrificing To sum up, the conventional understanding of market relationships can be expressed by two oppositions: market/social and self-regarding/ self-sacrificing. To so violate the terms of the nurturing, self-sacrificing womanly ideal would make her monstrous. In this sense, other-regarding preferences are necessarily self-sacrificing. These organizations are able to get high-quality labour at low wages, not because their low wages select workers with self-sacrificing preferences, but because of cross-subsidization. We have, however, idealized fictional accounts of the emotional ties between siblings and the sense of friendship and love that can motivate self-sacrificing behavior. This approach dispenses with the self-regarding/self-sacrificing opposition, but substitutes the opposition between intrinsic and instrumental motivation. They also would not justify imposing an obligation to be self-sacrificing for the benefit of others in general or of particular emotionally related others. That requires trust to be seen as expressing a self-sacrificing motivation that has no role in ordinary market relationships. Equally, there can be self-sacrificing care workers - people who are willing to incur losses in personal well-being in order to benefit those for whom they care. He reared a single female upon his own person with self-sacrificing enthusiasm, keeping the louse enclosed in a cotton-plugged tube with a particle of cloth to which it could cling. For this self-sacrificing work she ought to be guaranteed a living wage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that the self-sacrificing sympathy displayed by women of that kind might be more advantageously bestowed upon other and more worthy objects. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think they are self-sacrificing, devoted, patriotic people; but they are not acquainted with the facts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think it was very self-sacrificing and cooperative on his part. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no dispute that most self-sacrificing and splendid work has been done in rehabilitation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of self-sacrificing 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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