human sacrifice

基本解釋

To the Aztecs, human sacrifice was a necessary appeasement to the gods.
對(duì)阿芝科特來(lái)說(shuō)，供奉上帝是必須用活人獻(xiàn)祭的。
There were also several high-profile arrests of parents and relatives accused of selling children for human sacrifice.
抓捕幾個(gè)引人關(guān)注的父母和親慼，被控爲(wèi)活人祭祀販賣(mài)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(dá)爲(wèi)儀式謀殺和活人祭品感到震驚，警察努力作出廻應(yīng)，每個(gè)令人毛骨聳然的發(fā)現(xiàn)增加了公衆(zhòng)的癇癥（歇斯特裡癥）。

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(shuō)，由於不懂人類(lèi)起源，文學(xué)理論的第一犧牲者,就是作家，作家的思想。
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 文學(xué)理論導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

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