The ritual sacrifice officer, in his official costume, seriously said to the pigs in the sky, "You don't need to be afraid to die. I will treat you all very respectfully and politely."

祭祀官身着礼服，严肃认真地对猪圈里的猪进行说服教育：“你们完全不必怕死。

youdao

The blood of the animal, the blood of the sacrifice is the key to the whole ritual.

动物的血，祭品的血是整个仪式中最关键的部分。

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Klaus' arrival sets events in motion for the sacrifice ritual -- which requires the demise of vampire, a witch, a werewolf, and of course, Elena -- on the night of the full moon.

要破除吸血鬼所受的诅咒就要进行祭祀仪式——仪式将会在一个月圆之夜进行，届时将会需要吸血鬼的死亡、巫师和狼人当然还有Elena

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He has just returned from performing certain acts of ritual sacrifice.

他刚从执行完,特定的祭典奉献仪式中归来。

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The blood of the animal, the blood of the sacrifice is the key to the whole ritual.

动物的血，祭品的血是整个仪式中最关键的部分。

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You can't approach to offer a sacrifice if you're not in a state of ritual purity already.

如果你不处于仪式上纯洁的状态,你将不能贡献祭品。

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But this latest rendering of the century-old work enacts in alternately crude and generalized ways its story of a primitive society's ritual sacrifice to honor the coming season.

WSJ: The Men (and Women) of San Francisco | San Francisco Ballet | By Robert Greskovic

The solemn ritual sacrifice of a goat to the mountain is performed by villagers clad in their finest ceremonial dress, under the careful direction of a shibi (priest).

UNESCO: Culture

Half the Olympic program, on the other hand, was given over to religious ritual: processions, hymn-singing, incense-burning, gory animal sacrifice and strange incantations by exotically attired priests.

WSJ: The Ancient Olympics: Mud, Sex, Hymns...Sports Too