human sacrifice

常见例句

To the Aztecs, human sacrifice was a necessary appeasement to the gods.
对阿芝科特来说，供奉上帝是必须用活人献祭的。
There were also several high-profile arrests of parents and relatives accused of selling children for human sacrifice.
抓捕几个引人关注的父母和亲戚，被控为活人祭祀贩卖孩童。
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.
乌干达为仪式谋杀和活人祭品感到震惊，警察努力作出回应，每个令人毛骨耸然的发现增加了公众的痫症（歇斯特里症）。

In other words, in the absence of human agency, the first sacrifice for literary theory is the author, the idea of the author.
换句话说，由于不懂人类起源，文学理论的第一牺牲者,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