| 单词 | sympathize |
| 释义 | sympathize (once / 678 pages) v When you sympathize, you care about how someone else feels during a time of trouble. If you sympathize with your brother, whose best friend is moving away, you understand why he's feeling sad. When you sympathize, you care, so you might sympathize with the victims of an earthquake in a foreign country or a child who's waiting for her turn on a merry-go-round. Sympathize comes from the Greek sympathes, have a fellow feeling for. It's sometimes confused with empathize, which means putting yourself in someone else's shoes, rather than simply caring about them. WORD FAMILYsympathize: sympathized, sympathizer, sympathizes, sympathizing+/sympathetic: sympathetically, unsympathetic/sympathise: sympathised, sympathiser, sympathises, sympathising/sympathiser: sympathisers/sympathising: unsympathising/sympathizer: sympathizers/sympathizing: unsympathizing/sympathy: sympathetic, sympathies, sympathise, sympathize/unsympathetic: unsympathetically/unsympathizing: unsympathizingly USAGE EXAMPLES“We sympathize with the victims and their families.” Seattle Times(Dec 20, 2016) "We sympathize with the victims and their families." Reuters(Dec 20, 2016) “But I also sympathize with him. He was also forced into doing what he did.” Wall Street Journal(Dec 20, 2016) 1v to feel or express sympathy or compassion Syn|Hypo|Hyper commiserate, sympathise condole express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death compassionate, condole with, feel for, pity, sympathize with share the suffering of 2v share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of Syn|Hyper sympathise experience, feel undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind 3v be understanding of Syn empathise, empathize, sympathise, understand |
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