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vicarious

adjective
🔊/vɪˈkeəriəs/
🔊/vaɪˈkeriəs/
[only before noun]
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  1. felt or experienced by watching or reading about somebody else doing something, rather than by doing it yourself间接感受到的
    • He got a vicarious thrill out of watching his son score the winning goal.他看着儿子射入获胜的一球，也同样感到欣喜若狂。🔊🔊
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryVicarious is used with these nouns:
    • experience
    • pleasure
    • thrill
    • …
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    Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin vicarius ‘substitute’ (from vic- ‘change, turn, place’) + -ous.