sake
/ˈseɪ̯k/ 名词 A2中文： 缘故、理由、利益
- Cause, interest or account. · For the sake of argument· I hope you're right, for all our sakes!
- Purpose or end; reason. · for old times' sake· It's not worth risking your life for the sake of getting there a few minutes earlier.
- The benefit or regard of someone or something. · 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242a-b. But it will be for your sake that we'll undertake to refute this thesis, […]
- Contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge.
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Tell her that, since she has commanded me neither to speak nor to write to her, I take this means of making one last appeal to her sense of justice, for the sake of what has been.
He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment’s sake.
“All the jungle is thine,” said Bagheera, “and thou canst kill everything that thou art strong enough to kill; but for the sake of the bull that bought thee thou must never kill or eat any cattle young or old.
Mowgli would laugh and answer: “I have the Pack and I have thee; and Baloo, though he is so lazy, might strike a blow or two for my sake.
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