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Commiseration is the feeling of sympathy itself — or the words and faces that show it — when something unpleasant has happened to someone. “Please accept my commiserations” is a rather stiff, old-fashioned way to say “I’m sorry that happened.” You hear it after a loss, a defeat, or a job someone did not get. Though actually, in sport, people say “commiserations to the losing team” as a set phrase, even when they do not sound very sad. The feeling can be real and warm, or just polite.
同情、慰問（比賽輸了，轉播常說 commiserations to the losing team）
組成From Middle French commisération; same family as commiserate.
同家族的字
- commiseratethe verb: to show that sympathy
- miserablesame Latin miser root
- miserysame Latin miser root
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
commiserationnoun
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The act of commiserating; sorrow for the hardships or afflictions of another; pity; compassion.
- But her assertion soon proved its truth. That very evening I met both the Duc de Joyeuse and Mademoiselle Guerchy;—a slight embarrassment on his part, a little air of triumphant impertinence on hers, and an affected but insolent commiseration from Mademoiselle de Guise, told the whole.
- The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。