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Empathy is the ability to take in other people’s feelings and problems as if you were standing near their heart, not only looking from far away. You do not have to have lived the same life; you do have to try to feel the shape of it.
Empathy is the ability to take in other people's feelings and problems as if you were standing near their heart empathy是一種能力，讓你把別人的感受和困難，當作自己站在他們心旁邊一樣去感受 not only looking from far away而不只是遠遠地看著 You do not have to have lived the same life你不需要有過一樣的人生經歷 you do have to try to feel the shape of it但你確實要試著感受那件事的樣貌
In English classrooms this word is often set next to sympathy so students can split “I understand you” from “I feel sorry for you.” You meet it in psychology, in school talks about being a good friend, and in ordinary conversation.
In English classrooms this word is often set next to sympathy在英文課堂上，這個字常常會拿來跟sympathy放在一起 so students can split "I understand you" from "I feel sorry for you."讓學生分清楚「我懂你」跟「我為你感到遺憾」的差別 You meet it in psychology, in school talks about being a good friend, and in ordinary conversation你會在心理學、學校講「怎麼當好朋友」的場合，還有日常對話裡遇到這個字
It is a twentieth-century English word: the psychologist Edward Bradford Titchener coined it in 1909 to translate German Einfühlung (“feeling into”). He built it from Ancient Greek empátheia (literally “passion”), from en “in” + páthos “feeling,” so em- + -pathy.
It is a twentieth-century English word這是一個二十世紀才出現的英文字 the psychologist Edward Bradford Titchener coined it in 1909 to translate German Einfühlung ("feeling into")心理學家Edward Bradford Titchener在1909年創造這個字，用來翻譯德文的Einfühlung（意思是「感入」） He built it from Ancient Greek empátheia (literally "passion")他是從古希臘文empátheia（字面意思是「熱情」）造出這個字 from en "in" + páthos "feeling," so em- + -pathy由en「在裡面」加上páthos「感受」組成，也就是em-加-pathy
Though actually, if you say εμπάθεια in modern Greek, you are not praising someone: there it points to strong bad feeling and prejudice against a person — almost the opposite of the English sense.
Though actually不過事實上 if you say εμπάθεια in modern Greek如果你在現代希臘語裡說εμπάθεια you are not praising someone你並不是在稱讚一個人 there it points to strong bad feeling and prejudice against a person在那裡它指的是對某人強烈的負面情緒和偏見 almost the opposite of the English sense幾乎跟英文的意思相反
組成em- (Greek en, “in”) + -pathy (páthos, “feeling”). Coined in 1909 by Edward Bradford Titchener to translate German Einfühlung. Ancient Greek empátheia meant passion; modern Greek εμπάθεια means hostile prejudice.
同家族的字
- empathizethe verb from this noun
- empatheticthe common adjective
- sympathyshares Greek páthos “feeling”, with syn- “with” instead of em- “in”
- pathosthe same Greek “feeling” piece used on its own in English for a quality that stirs pity
原始詞典資料4 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。
empathynoun/ˈɛmpəθi/
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Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person.
- She had a lot of empathy for her neighbor; she knew what it was like to lose a parent too.
- Like your body's in the room but you're not really there / Like you have empathy inside but you don't really care / Like you're fresh outta love but it's been in the air / Am I past repair?
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The capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.
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literaturemediaparapsychologyA paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.
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obsoleteslangMDMA.
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。