immolation
immolation — 名詞
1. the act of causing death or destruction through fire, especially when done as a
焚祭；焚殺
用火殺死或毀滅的行為
the act of causing death or destruction through fire, especially when done as a form of sacrifice or political protest
A Buddhist monk carried out a public immolation in the capital to protest government policies.
一名佛教僧侶在首都以公開自焚的方式抗議政府的政策。
public immolation — protest context
The ancient text describes the ritual immolation of goats during the harvest festival.
那部古代文獻描述了豐收節期間以山羊進行燔祭的儀式。
ritual immolation of + animal — sacrifice context
Rachid's documentary explored the history of self-immolation as a form of nonviolent resistance.
Rachid 的紀錄片探討了自焚作為一種非暴力抗議形式的歷史。
self-immolation as + purpose — political tactic
Residents watched in horror as the militia began the immolation of their homes.
居民驚恐地看著民兵組織開始焚燒他們的家園。
immolation of + noun phrase — intentional destruction
Tamás could not believe the cult leader demanded the immolation of his own followers.
Tamás 不敢相信那位邪教領袖竟要求將自己的信徒焚殺。
demanded the immolation of + person — victim as object
- self-immolation
- public immolation
- ritual immolation
- mass immolation
- threatened immolation
- sacrifice
broader term — can involve any valued object or life given up, not necessarily by fire or in a ritual
- burning
more general and informal — can refer to any fire-based destruction (a letter, a pile of leaves), without the connotation of ritual or protest
- holocaust
only used for mass, large-scale destruction by fire — carries extreme emotional weight, especially tied to the Nazi genocide
文法句型
the immolation of + noun
self-immolation
用法筆記
Always refers to death or destruction specifically by burning — it is not a synonym for sacrifice in general. The compound self-immolation is far more common in modern journalism than the bare noun.
常見錯誤
同根字
- immolate動詞C2
- immolator名詞C2