| 词组 | martyr |
| 释义 | martyr 1. • He'd been a martyr to asthma all his life —A. J. Cronin, The Citadel, 1937 • ... Chaucer, as an amorous poet, made Aeneas fickle instead of a martyr to duty —Gilbert Highet, The Classical Tradition, 1949 Occasionally martyr is followed by for or of: • ... she died as martyr for the new morality against the old —John Ardagh, Washington Post Book World, 26 Sept. 1971 • ... the common picture of her (Cleopatra) as a martyr of love, a mortal Aphrodite —John Buchan, Augustus, 1937 Raub 1897 suggests using "martyr for or to a cause, to a disease." According to our evidence, the distinction still exists. Of those citations in the Merriam-Webster files that show martyr used in connection with a physical condition, all follow it with to, as in the Cronin example above. 2. • ... he is determined to martyr himself, if need be, for the anti-Nazi cause —Time, 14 Apr. 1941 • ... martyred by Diocletian for refusing to abjure the Christian faith —E. R. Leach, London Calling, 24 June 1954 |
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