| 单词 | sympathy |
| 释义 | sym·pa·thy 1. archaic < you are not young, no more am I; go to then, there's sympathy — Shakespeare > 2. a. < steel prices have advanced in this district in sympathy with rising prices elsewhere > < the magical sympathy … supposed to exist between a man and any severed portion of his person, as his hair or nails — J.G.Frazer > b. < there is a purely physical sympathy: a very young child will cry because a brother or sister is crying — Bertrand Russell > c. < the most felicitous unity of general design … for every part is in complete sympathy with the scheme as a whole — Edwin Benson > 3. a. < sympathy is as essential as love in marriage > < though not a member of the Society of Friends, I am in sympathy with their aims > b. < always identified in sympathy with the laboring classes — E.S.Bates > — often used in plural < radical sympathies > < republican sympathies > < they were Philadelphians, Quaker in their religious sympathies — Lucien Price > 4. a. b. < have sympathy for the poor > < seek sympathy from a friend > < a boy goes for sympathy and companionship to his mother and sisters, not often to his father — A.C.Benson > 5. Synonyms: < in immediate sympathy with my desire to increase my … knowledge — David Fairchild > < sympathies were … with the Roman Stoics — Havelock Ellis > < satire had its roots not in hatred but in sympathy — Bliss Perry > pity has the strongest emotional connotation; the emotion may be one of tenderness, love, or respect induced by the magnitude of another's suffering or of fellowship with the sufferer < pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer — James Joyce > < pity that made you cry … not for this person or that person who is suffering, but … for the very nature of things … out of pity comes the balm which heals — William Saroyan > pity may suggest a tinge of contempt for one who is inferior whether because of suffering or from inherent weakness; there is also a frequent suggestion that the effect if not the purpose of pity is to keep the object in a weak or inferior state < pity for the man who could think of nothing better — T.S.Eliot > < the parents of a crippled child should give him understanding and challenge rather than pity > compassion orig. meant fellowship in suffering between equals; now it denotes imaginative or emotional sharing of the distress or misfortune of another or others who are considered or treated as equals; it implies tenderness and understanding as well as an urgent desire to aid and spare < one of his neighbor women cooked a chicken and brought it in to him out of pure compassion — Willa Cather > < with understanding, with compassion (so different from pity) she shows the sordid impact … on the lives of the natives — Sarah Campion > < when Jesus came in his gentleness with his divine compassion — Robert Bridges †1930 > but while compassion suggests a greater dignity in the object then pity often does, it also implies a greater detachment in the subject < as a priest he regards all history from that eminence of spiritual objectivity which is called compassion — W.F.Albright > commiseration and condolence agree in placing the emphasis on expression of a feeling for another's affliction, rather than on the feeling itself. commiseration denotes a spontaneous and vocal expression, often one made in public or by a crowd < there was a murmur of commiseration as Charles Darnay crossed the room … the soft and compassionate voices of women — Charles Dickens > condolence denotes a formal expression of sympathy especially for the loss of a relative through death and refers strictly to an observance of etiquette without any implication as to the underlying feeling < a condolence call > < they received many condolences > ruth denotes softening of a stern or indifferent disposition < look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth — John Milton > empathy, of all the terms here represented, has the least emotional content; it describes a gift, often a cultivated gift, for vicarious feeling, but the feeling need not be one of sorrow; thus empathy is often used as a synonym for some senses of sympathy as well as in distinction from sympathy < what he lacks is not sympathy but empathy, the ability to put himself in the other fellow's place — G.W.Johnson > empathy is frequently employed with reference to a nonhuman object (as a literary character, an idea, culture, or work of art) < a fundamental component of the aesthetic attitude is sympathy, or — more accurately — empathy. In the presence of any work of art … the recipient … must surrender his independent and outstanding personality, to identify himself with the form or action presented by the artist — Herbert Read > |
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