sympathy
英 [ˈsɪmpəθi] 美 [ˈsɪmpəθi]

n.

意气相投，同感；同情，同情心；慰问；和谐的一致

变形

复数：sympathies

双语释义

n.(名词)

1. [U] 同情(心) (capacity for) sharing the feelings of others; feeling of pity and sorrow for sb
2. [P] 慰问; (感情上)的支持 feeling or expression of sorrow, approval, etc.

英英释义

sympathy[ 'simpəθi ]

• n.
  • an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion

    同义词：understanding

  • sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)

    同义词：fellow feeling

  • a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other

    "the two of them were in close sympathy"

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)动词+～

• accept sb's sympathy接受某人的慰问
• express sympathy表示慰问
• feel〔show〕 sympathy表示同情
• get〔win〕 sb's sympathy得到某人的同情

形容词+～

• deep〔great〕 sympathy深切〔巨大〕的同情
• strong sympathy强烈的同情心

介词+～

• in〔out of〕 sympathy with sb's proposal赞同〔不赞同〕某人的提议
• letter of sympathy慰问信

～+介词

• sympathy for对…的同情
• sympathy with sb's cause赞成某人的事业

词组短语

sympathy for对…表示同情

sympathy with赞同；对…同情

in sympathy with同情；赞成

同近义词辨析

pity, sympathy, compassion, mercy

这组词都有“同情、怜悯”的意思，其区别是：

pity指对弱者、不幸者所表示的怜惜之情。

sympathy普通常用词，含义广。指志趣、看法上的一致，也指感情相投，带有深深的恻隐之心的亲切之情。

compassion较正式较庄重用词，指对同等人的同情与理解，常含急切愿意帮忙的意味。

mercy侧重指对应受惩罚或地位卑下者的慈悲或怜悯。

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. I felt much sympathy for the blind.
   我对盲人深感同情。
2. I have great sympathy for people in affliction.
   我对那些受苦受难的人们充满同情。
3. The story stirred her sympathy.
   这故事激起了她的同情心。
4. You shouldn't trade on her sympathy.
   你不应该利用她的同情心。
5. I have a lot of sympathy for his opinions.
   我对他的意见深有同感。
6. Many people are in sympathy with your views.
   许多人赞同你的看法。
7. They sent me a letter of sympathy.
   他们寄给我一封慰问信。

权威例句

Sympathy and phonological opacity
Neural correlates of feeling sympathy
Empathic responding: Sympathy and personal distress.
Relation of Sympathy and Personal Distress to Prosocial Behavior: A Multimethod Study
Sympathy through affective perspective taking and its relation to prosocial behavior in toddlers.
The Scarecrow and the Tin Man: The vicissitudes of human sympathy and caring.
Neurodevelopmental changes in the circuits underlying empathy and sympathy from childhood to adulthood.
Contemporaneous and longitudinal prediction of children's sympathy from dispositional regulation and emotionality.
Longitudinal Relations among Parental Emotional Expressivity and Sympathy and Prosocial Behavior in Adolescence.
Brazilian adolescents' prosocial moral judgment and behavior: relations to sympathy, perspective taking, gender-role orientation, an...