victim: [15] Victim originally denoted a ‘person or animal killed as a sacrifice’; the more general notion of ‘someone who suffers from or is killed by something’ is a secondary development. The word was borrowed from Latin victima, which may be related to German weihen ‘consecrate’.
victim (n.)
late 15c., "living creature killed and offered as a sacrifice to a deity or supernatural power," from Latin victima "person or animal killed as a sacrifice." Perhaps distantly connected to Old English wig "idol," Gothic weihs "holy," German weihen "consecrate" (compare Weihnachten "Christmas") on notion of "a consecrated animal." Sense of "person who is hurt, tortured, or killed by another" is recorded from 1650s; meaning "person oppressed by some power or situation" is from 1718. Weaker sense of "person taken advantage of" is recorded from 1781.
雙語例句
1. The victim suffered a dreadful injury and lost a lot of blood.
受害者受了重傷，大量失血。
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2. We usually think of a victim of mugging as being someone elderly.
我們通常以為被攔路搶劫的受害者是老年人。
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3. He was innocent and the victim of a frame-up.
他是清白的，是受人誣陷的。
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4. The victim was outside a shop when he was attacked.
被害人遇襲時正在一家商店的外面。
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5. Almost without exception these women fall victim to exploitation.