human sacrifice

常见例句

To the Aztecs, human sacrifice was a necessary appeasement to the gods.
對阿芝科特來說，供奉上帝是必須用活人獻祭的。
There were also several high-profile arrests of parents and relatives accused of selling children for human sacrifice.
抓捕幾個引人關注的父母和親慼，被控爲活人祭祀販賣孩童。
Uganda has been shocked by a surge in ritualistic murders and human sacrifice, with police struggling to respond and public hysteria mounting at each gruesome discovery.
烏乾達爲儀式謀殺和活人祭品感到震驚，警察努力作出廻應，每個令人毛骨聳然的發現增加了公衆的癇症（歇斯特裡症）。

In other words, in the absence of human agency, the first sacrifice for literary theory is the author, the idea of the author.
換句話說，由於不懂人類起源，文學理論的第一犧牲者,就是作家，作家的思想。
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Similarly, the discovery of butchered children's bones suggested that the Minoans—far from being utterly peace loving—practised ritual human sacrifice and cannibalism.
ECONOMIST: Bullshot
And the culmination of these ceremonies, Carandini writes, was human sacrifice.
NEWYORKER: The Empire Strikes Back