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empathy

noun
🔊/ˈempəθi/
🔊/ˈempəθi/
 [uncountable]
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  1. the ability to understand another person’s feelings, experience, etc.同感；共鸣；同情
    • empathy (with somebody/something) the writer’s imaginative empathy with his subject作者在想象中与笔下的人物情感共呜
    • empathy (for somebody/something) empathy for other people’s situations对他人所处境况的同情
    • empathy (between A and B) The empathy between the two women was obvious.显然这两个女人心灵相通。🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • She had a deep empathy with animals.她对动物有浓浓的爱心。
    • The nurse should try to develop empathy between herself and the patient.护士应当努力与病人建立心理上的沟通。
    • Both authors have the skill to make you feel empathy with their heroines.两位作者都有技巧让人对其女主角产生共鸣。
    • It is important to develop the empathy between dogs and their handlers.重要的是要养成狗及其处理者之间的同理心。
    • She shows a lack of empathy for other people's situations.她显得对其他人的处境缺乏同情。
    Topics Personal qualitiesc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • deep
    • great
    • genuine
    • …
    verb + empathy
    • feel
    • have
    • demonstrate
    • …
    preposition
    • empathy between
    • empathy for
    • empathy with
    • …
    phrases
    • a feeling of empathy
    • a lack of empathy
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    Word Originearly 20th cent.: from Greek empatheia (from em- ‘in’ + pathos ‘feeling’) translating German Einfühlung.