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To immolate someone is to kill them by burning them. To immolate something is to destroy it by fire, usually on purpose and with a solemn feeling — as a sacrifice, or as a protest. This is a rare, formal, literary word. You will almost never hear it in daily conversation. The use students meet in the news is often someone who immolates themselves. Though actually the Latin source meant “to sacrifice,” not only “to burn”; in English today the burning is the meaning that stuck.
燒死；焚祭（含自焚）
組成Borrowed from Latin immolātus, from immolō (“to sacrifice”); the English ending -ate makes it a verb.
同家族的字
- immolationthe noun — the act of killing or destroying by fire, often as a sacrifice or protest
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
immolateverb/ˈɪm.əʊ.leɪt/
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To kill as a sacrifice by burning.
- Evidently some, or all, of the boars immolated themselves, for the train crew are reported to have picked up three dead boars and continued to Sézanne, the next stop, where they gave them to the local hospital cooks.
- A secular style, a new beginning after the iconoclastic excesses under young Edward VI, when angels, Mothers and Children had flared and crackled in the streets, immolated to a logical absolute God who disliked images.
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To kill, harm, or destroy by fire.
- She imparted these stories gradually to Miss Crawley; gave her the whole benefit of them; felt it to be her bounden duty as a Christian woman and mother of a family to do so; had not the smallest remorse or compunction for the victim whom her tongue was immolating; nay, very likely thought her act was quite meritorious, and plumed herself upon her resolute manner of performing it.
immolateadj/ˈɪm.əʊ.leɪt/
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obsoleteImmolated, sacrificed.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。