sake
sake 英 [seɪk] 美 [sek]
n. 份上，面上
名词复数:sakes
- Sake means the purpose for doing something. You might run a fund-raising marathon for the sake of sick children.
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- n. 份上，面上
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1. Do be careful, for goodness' sake.
千万要小心。
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2. Oh, for heaven's sake!
哎哟，天哪！
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3. I believe in education for its own sake.
我相信教育本身就是有价值的。
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4. They stayed together for the sake of the children.
为了孩子，他们还待在一起。
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5. You can do it. Please, for my sake.
这个你是能做的。求你了，就算为了我。
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6. She gave up smoking for the sake of her health.
为保持身体健康，她戒了烟。
- sake (n.1) "purpose," Old English sacu "a cause at law, crime, dispute, guilt," from Proto-Germanic *sako "affair, thing, charge, accusation" (source also of Old Norse sök "charge, lawsuit, effect, cause," Old Frisian seke "strife, dispute, matter, thing," Dutch zaak "lawsuit, cause, sake, thing," German Sache "thing, matter, affair, cause"), from PIE root *sag- "to investigate, seek out" (source also of Old English secan, Gothic sokjan "to seek;" see seek).
- sake (n.2) "Japanese rice liquor," 1680s, from Japanese sake, literally "alcohol."
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