victim

英 ['v?kt?m] 美['v?kt?m]

CET4TEM4考研CET6中高頻詞核心詞匯

復數:?victims;

victim 受害者

來自拉丁語victima,祭品，獻祭的人或動物，來自PIE*weik,選擇，選出祭品，犧牲，詞源同Wicca,witch。由祭品引申詞義受害者。

victim: 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.

1. The victim suffered a dreadful injury and lost a lot of blood.: 受害者受了重傷，大量失血。

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。

5. Almost without exception these women fall victim to exploitation.: 這些女性幾乎無一例外都受到了盤剝。