Word · CEFR B1 · Frequency #3089
Fully loadedsympathy
同情；怜悯
the feeling of pity and sorrow for someone's misfortune
- 1.
A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.
对他人的痛苦或不幸感到怜悯或悲伤。
- 2.
an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
支持、忠诚或同意某种观点的倾向
- 3.
Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.
倾向于想法或感受一致；情感或理智上的契合；共同感受。
- 4.
sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)
分享他人的感受(尤其是悲伤或痛苦)
- 5.
An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
人或事物之间的亲和力、联系或相互关系,以致于任何状况都会相应地影响彼此。
- 6.
a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other
人与人之间的亲和或和谐关系；一个人的影响会相应地影响另一个人
赞同；支持；吊唁；慰问；对他人的痛苦或不幸感到怜悯或悲伤。；支持、忠诚或同意某种观点的倾向；倾向于想法或感受一致；情感或理智上的契合；共同感受。
In use
I felt great sympathy for her when she lost her job.
Many people expressed sympathy with the protesters' demands.
Please accept my deepest sympathies on the passing of your father.
his sympathies were always with the underdog
the two of them were in close sympathy
feel sympathy for sb
I feel great sympathy for the victims.
我非常同情受害者。
express one's sympathy to sb
常用于吊唁场合。
She expressed her sympathy to the grieving family.
Connections
Collocations
- express sympathy
- 表达同情
- She expressed her sympathy for the victims of the disaster.她对灾难受害者表达了同情。
- offer sympathy
- 表示同情
- The president offered his sympathy to the families of the fallen soldiers.总统向阵亡士兵家属表示了同情。
- deep sympathy
- 深深的同情
- I have deep sympathy for the struggles they have endured.我对他们经历的苦难深表同情。
- sympathy for
- 对……的同情
- He felt great sympathy for the homeless people in the city.他对城市里的无家可归者深感同情。
- sympathy with
- 赞同；支持
- I have sympathy with their cause and hope they succeed.我赞同他们的事业，希望他们成功。
- out of sympathy
Learner notes
Memory Tip
记：sym-同，pathy-感，同感即同情
Context & Register
Register: neutral. Contexts: personal conversations, literature, news. Note_zh: 通常用于表达对他人的悲伤或苦难的理解和关心，在日常对话、文学和新闻报道中都很常见。
Pronunciation & Spelling
These words share the spelling ending '-pathy', pronounced as /pəθi/, but due to different stress placement, they are not perfect rhymes. For example, 'sympathy' (/ˈsɪmpəθi/) has stress on the first syllable, while 'antipathy' (/ænˈtɪpəθi/) has stress on the second.
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 3，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
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