Sympathy

['sɪmpəθɪ] or ['sɪmpəθi]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion; 'his sympathies were always with the underdog'; 'I knew I could count on his understanding'.

(noun.) sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish).

(noun.) a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other; 'the two of them were in close sympathy'.

达拉整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling.

(n.) An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between them.

(n.) Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion.

(n.) The reciprocal influence exercised by the various organs or parts of the body on one another, as manifested in the transmission of a disease by unknown means from one organ to another quite remote, or in the influence exerted by a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain.

(n.) That relation which exists between different persons by which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that of himself. This is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another person suffering with hysteria.

(n.) A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron.

(n.) Similarity of function, use office, or the like.

伯特兰校對

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Compassion, commiseration, condolence, pity, tenderness, kindliness, fellow-feeling, bowels of compassion.[2]. Agreement, harmony, correspondence, correlation, affinity, union, concert.[3]. Mutual influence.

錄入:史黛西

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Fellow-feeling, congeniality, commiseration, compassion, pity, concert,tenderness, agreement, condolence

ANT:Antipathy, antagonism, incongeniality, pitilessness, mercilessness,compassionlessness, unkindness, harshness, unkindliness

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解釋/意思:

n. like feeling: an agreement of inclination feeling or sensation: compassion: pity: tenderness: an agreement of affections or inclinations or a conformity of natural temperament: mutual conformity of parts in the fine arts: correspondence of parts in similar sensations or affections or the affection of the whole body or system or some part of it in consequence of local injury or disease: propensity of inanimate bodies to union or mutual action: the effective union of colours.—adjs. Sympathet′ic -al showing or inclined to sympathy: feeling with another: able to sympathise: compassionate: produced by sympathy: uniting viscera and blood-vessels in a nervous action common to them all: noting sounds induced by vibrations conveyed through air &c. from a body already in vibration.—adv. Sympathet′ically.—n. Sympathet′icism undue disipostion to be sympathetic.—v.i. Sym′pathise to have sympathy: to feel with or for another: to be compassionate.—ns. Sym′pathiser; Sym′pathism; Sym′pathist.—Sympathetic ink (see Ink).

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