victim

英 ['vɪktɪm] 美 ['vɪktɪm]

• n. 受害者；受骗者；牺牲

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C] 牺牲者,受害者,受骗者

   a person, animal, or thing that suffers pain, death, harm, destruction

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 受害者，受骗者，受灾者，上当的人
2. 牺牲者，遭难者，死亡者
3. 祭品，为祭祀杀死的动物
4. 牺牲（品）
5. 替罪羊
6. （下手）对象
7. 待处决的犯人
8. 蒙骗，上当
9. 患者，病人

英英释义

Noun:

1. an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance

2. a person who is tricked or swindled

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Think of yourself as a survivor, not a victim.
   把自己看作幸运儿,不要看作受害者。
2. The victim was smothered to death.
   受害人被窒息致死。
3. She fell an easy victim to his temptation.
   她经不起他的诱惑，轻易地被骗了。
4. He was the victim of injustice.
   他是不公平的牺牲者。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. Most of the victims were shot in the back while trying to run away.
   大多数受害者在设法逃跑时从背后被枪杀。
2. One victim was swindled out of her life savings.
   一位受骗者被骗去她一生的积蓄。
3. A fund was opened to help the victims of the earthquake.
   已经设立了一项基金来救济地震灾民。

经典引文

• The victims were all children. Each child was manually strangled.

  出自： J. Wainwright

• Jean..began falling victim to a series of minor illnesses.

  出自： I. Hamilton

• Babel's characters..victims of their own foolishness as well as of the march of events.

  出自：Punch

• 45 per cent of youngsters claimed to be victims of racial harassment.

  出自：Times Educational Supplement

• Proposed to recognize the victims of the..civil wars as political persecutees.

  出自：Journal of Refugee Studies

• The street lights were out in the alley..victims of years of municipal neglect.

  出自：New York Review of Books

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• entrap a victim 使受害者陷入圈套
• help the victim 帮助灾民

形容词+～

• unsuspecting victim 轻信的受骗者

名词+～

• accident victim 事故的遇难者

词语用法

1. 一般来说，victim表示“受害者”，没有“死亡”的意思，但是用于疾病名前的时候，常指“因某病而死的死者”；
2. victim前的冠词a有时可省略。

   He fell (a) victim to the secret police.

词源解说

• ☆ 15世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自古典拉丁语的victima，意为被杀用来做祭的人或动物。

近反义词

【近义词】

• sufferer