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Self-sacrifice is when you choose not to take, keep, or do something you want — or even something you need — so that another person can have it, or so that a bigger good can happen. It is heavier than “being nice.” The cost is real: time, money, comfort, a chance, sometimes safety.
Self-sacrifice是 is when you choose not to take, keep, or do something you want是你選擇不去拿、不去留、或不去做你想要的東西——or even something you need甚至是你需要的東西——so that another person can have it好讓另一個人可以擁有，or so that a bigger good can happen或是讓一件更大的好事得以發生。It is heavier than "being nice."它比「人很好」更重。The cost is real代價是真實的：time, money, comfort, a chance, sometimes safety時間、金錢、舒適、一個機會、有時候甚至是安全。
People say it with respect, often about parents, , or anyone who keeps putting others first on purpose.
People say it with respect人們講這個詞帶著敬意，often about parents, carers, or anyone who keeps putting others first on purpose常常是在講父母、照顧者、或任何刻意一直把別人放在自己前面的人。
Though actually, we also stretch it. A friend who always takes the worst seat may be praised for self-sacrifice even when the price is small. What the word still marks is this: you decided, and you paid.
Though actually不過事實上 we also stretch it我們也會把這個詞用得比較寬鬆。A friend who always takes the worst seat一個總是坐最差位子的朋友 may be praised for self-sacrifice even when the price is small就算代價很小，也可能被稱讚是self-sacrifice（自我犧牲）。What the word still marks is this這個詞始終標記的是：you decided, and you paid你做了選擇，而且你付出了代價。
It is a noun (her self-sacrifice), not a way to describe a person.
It is a noun它是名詞（her self-sacrifice她的自我犧牲），not a way to describe a person不是用來形容一個人的詞。
組成self- means “yourself.” Sacrifice comes from Latin sacer, “holy,” and facere, “to make”: long ago, a sacrifice was making something holy by giving it to a god. English kept the idea of giving something up.
同家族的字
- self-sacrificingthe adjective: a self-sacrificing person does this
- sacrificethe same “giving something up” idea, without self-
原始詞典資料2 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。
self-sacrificenoun
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The giving up of one's own benefit for the good of others.
- Caring for a loved one with a chronic illness inevitably involves self-sacrifice.
- Whatever he was suffering, it was she who had caused it; he had vacated his house on account of her. She was not worth such self-sacrifice; she should not have accepted it of him.
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The act of making the ultimate sacrifice of giving up one's life for a cause.
- His brave self-sacrifice won him a posthumous medal, but I think he'd have preferred to receive it in person.
- [Scott’s Last Expedition] had been one of my own favourite books. It seemed curiously dated now, this heroism with only the ice for enemy, self-sacrifice that involved no deaths beyond one’s own.
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。