核心畫面
You can picture sympathy as your feelings moving in step with someone else's. Their situation reaches you, and something inside you answers it — so when they are hurting, part of you leans that way too. From that one picture the word stretches: leaning towards a person in trouble, leaning towards a cause you think is right, or two people whose feelings happen to move the same way from the start.
可以想成：別人的感覺傳過來，你心裡有一根弦跟著動了。你不是站在遠處看，而是多少被拉往同一個方向——他難過，你這邊也沉…更多收起
可以想成：別人的感覺傳過來，你心裡有一根弦跟著動了。你不是站在遠處看，而是多少被拉往同一個方向——他難過，你這邊也沉了一點。這個「跟著同一個方向動」的畫面，往後可以是為一個受苦的人而動，也可以是為一個主張而動，還可以是兩個人的心從一開始就往同一邊擺。原始詞典資料9 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。
sympathynoun/ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/
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A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.
- If you want sympathy you’ll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis. Sympathy may pay well in the short term, but if you cash in on sympathy, it will take everything from you in the long run.
- And all told, Trump’s second term has actually led to the most sympathy for migrants on record in the 21st century, per Gallup. Fully 79% of Americans now say immigration is a “good thing,” compared with 64% last year.
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A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.
- While you'll probably have her sympathies if your condominium association wants to preapprove your storm door, you'll need to work harder for her support if your boss at the music megastore demands you grow a goatee to help lend the place some indie cred.
- 3
A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.
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Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.
- Oh vvhat a ſimpathie of vvoe is this, / As farre from helpe, as Lymbo is from bliſſe.
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Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.
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Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.
- Many people in Hollywood were blacklisted merely because they were suspected of Communist sympathies.
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An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
- He observed, also, the frequent sympathy of volcanic and terremotive action in remote districts of the earth's surface, thus showing how deeply seated must be the cause of these convulsions.
- A peculiarity of were-animals is the sympathy that exists between their animal form and that of the human with whom it is connected.
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An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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artartsAn affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
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。