blood sacrifice

基本解释

Blood sacrifice itself is execrated (a cruel waste). But the object of the greatest loathing is the freedom of the senses.
血的牺牲本身被憎恨（一种残酷的浪费）。但是最大的憎恶毒目标，是各种感官的自由。
It is easy to see how important the man of knowledge and experience the man who knew about the blood sacrifice and the stars became in this early neolithic world.
很容易理解，在这个早期新石器时代的世界里，一个富有知识和经验、熟悉血祭和星球的人变得多么举足轻重。
His muse-ack provides sufficient cause to reflect—coolly—on the hard fact that spring was the time when our ancestral tribes built festivals around the rites of blood sacrifice.
他那蹩脚的音乐足以让人思索，冷静地思索这样一个铁的事实：春天是我们的祖先部落围绕血祭仪式举行庆典的季节。

The blood of the animal, the blood of the sacrifice is the key to the whole ritual.
动物的血，祭品的血是整个仪式中最关键的部分。
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So if you go back to Eisenhower, for instance, he said anyone who had seen the sacrifice and the blood of his friends has got to be humble, has got to understand humility, s something so much larger than we are.
如果回到艾森豪威尔时期，他说任何人,凡是见过朋友牺牲流血,都必须谦逊，都必须理解为何谦逊，因为相对而言，我们很渺小，because，it’
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