vic‧tim S3 W2 / vɪktəm, vɪktɪm / 名词 [可数名词]

1 someone who has been attacked, robbed, or murdered :

The victim received head injuries from which she died a week later.

rape/murder etc victim

Most homicide victims are under 30.

victim of

victims of crime

a credit card fraud ring that stole millions of dollars from unsuspecting victims

2 someone who suffers because of something bad that happens or because of an illness

victim of

victims of age discrimination

He was the victim of an administrative error.

a massive aid programme for the famine victims

AIDS victims and other patients who are terminally ill

All these people are innocent victims .

He was used to being in charge, not being the victim of circumstance .

Saying that the unemployed ‘don’t want to work’ is a classic case of blaming the victim .

3 fall victim to somebody/something written

a) to be attacked, killed etc by someone, or to get a particular illness, especially one that kills :

One theory is that the hostages fell victim to bandits.

b) to be badly affected or destroyed by a situation :

Many small businesses have fallen victim to the recession.

4 be/become a victim of its own success to be badly affected by some unexpected results of being very successful :

There are now so many tourists that the area has become a victim of its own success.

5 sacrificial victim a person or animal that is killed and offered as a sacrifice (= gift ) to a god

6 fashion/style victim someone who always wears the most fashionable clothes even if they do not look good in them

COLLOCATIONS

ADJECTIVES/NOUN + victim

a flood/earthquake/cyclone etc victim Earthquake victims were living in tents in the city’s parks.

a famine victim (= someone who has had no food to eat for a long time ) Aid is being shipped to famine victims.

a cancer/AIDS etc victim He helped raise £2,000 for a dying cancer victim.

an accident/crash victim The crash victims were rushed to hospital.

an innocent victim Children are the innocent victims of war.

an unfortunate victim If you are the unfortunate victim of a tragic accident, this card will tell doctors that you are willing to donate your organs.

victim + NOUN

a victim mentality (= when someone always thinks of themselves as a victim ) Many of us fall into a victim mentality, and blame all our troubles on other people.

短语

a victim of circumstance (= someone who suffers because of something they cannot control ) She was a victim of circumstance, as she was born at a time when women had no power.

动词

blame the victim (= to say that someone is responsible for their own bad situation ) It is blaming the victim to ask the woman what she does that makes her husband lose his temper and hit her.

portray somebody as a victim (= to write or talk about someone as though they are not responsible for their bad situation ) She was portrayed as the victim of a loveless marriage.