Dave Sharpe says the veterans have sacrificed so much.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

In particular, the daily burnt offerings sacrificed by the priests twice each day, and emitting this pleasing odor: these were an effort to attract the deity.

尤其是每天两次的烧祭品,散发出美妙的气味：,这些都是为了吸引神灵的注意。

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So I think that if cost-benefit analysis isn't employed, the greater good is sacrificed, in this case.

所以我认为此种情况下，如果不用成本效益分析，会牺牲更多人的利益。

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He was 22. President Obama paid tribute on Veteran's Day to all those who have sacrificed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

He would gladly have sacrificed them in order to keep the much more virtuous and pure Lycidas -a gruesome proposal, but it's a gruesome proposal that suggests a primitive desire for a quid pro quo.

他很乐意牺牲了他们,来维持更为纯洁纯粹的,这是一首令人毛骨悚然的提议,暗示着一种最原始的复仇的欲望。

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He said those who sacrificed their lives did so o help the Afghan people achieve a brighter future.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Twenty-thousand lives are annually sacrificed on the plantations of the South.

每年有二万多条生命,成了南方种植园的牺牲品

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It's saying everybody has to be counted as an equal even though at the end of the day, one can be sacrificed for the general welfare.

基本观点是，众生皆平等,虽然不得已之时，为了大众的福祉，个体还是可以被牺牲的。

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He's been sacrificed to the Puritan cause.

他成了新兴清教徒事业的牺牲品。

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