empathy /ˈempəθi/
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外刊例句
People who were most altruistic after training showed the biggest increases in activity in brain areas involved in empathy and positive emotion. So empathy appears to be like a muscle—it can be built up by exercise that causes actual physiological changes.
那些在訓練後表現最為慷慨的試驗者,其大腦内與同情和積極情緒有關的區域的活動大為增強。因此,同情心似乎與肌肉類似——可以通過能引起真正生理變化的訓練來建立。
基本釋義
empathy: Empathy is the ability to share another person's feelings and emotions as if they were your own.
n. 同情心;感同身受;共鳴
追根溯源
單詞empathy裡的詞根path來源于希臘語pathos, 意思是“感受”。所以呢,在英語裡,出現跟path相關的單詞,大多都與此相關。例如:
pathetic /pəˈθetɪk/
adj. 可憐的,悲哀的
apathetic /ˌæpəˈθetɪk/
adj. 冷漠的;無動于衷的
sympathy /ˈsɪmpəθi/
n. 同情;慰問
psychopath /ˈsaɪkəpæθ/
n. 精神病患者
這樣記單詞,是不是感覺很輕松呢?這個詞根的來源,以及知識點的拓展,在韋小綠《Vocabulary Builder》這本書裡,寫的非常詳細:
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