vicarious

英 [v?'ke?r??s; va?-] 美[va?'k?r??s]

TEM8GRE暢通詞匯

副詞:?vicariously;

1. vice-, vicar => vicarious.

vicarious 感同身受的

來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)vicis,改變，交流，繼任，來(lái)自PIE*weik,彎，轉(zhuǎn)，詞源同week,winch.引申詞義感同身受的。

vicarious (adj.): 1630s, "taking the place of another," from Latin vicarius "that supplies a place; substituted, delegated," from vicis "a change, exchange, interchange; succession, alternation, substitution," from PIE root *weik- (4) "to bend, wind" (cognates: Sanskrit visti "changing, changeable;" Old English wician "to give way, yield," wice "wych elm;" Old Norse vikja "to bend, turn;" Swedish viker "willow twig, wand;" German wechsel "change").

From 1690s as "done or experienced in place of another" (usually in reference to punishment, often of Christ); from 1929 as "experienced imaginatively through another." Related: Vicariously.

1. She invents fantasy lives for her own vicarious pleasure.: 她幻想過(guò)著各種奇妙的生活，從想入非非中獲得樂(lè)趣。

2. He got a vicarious thrill out of watching his son score the winning goal.: 他看著兒子射入獲勝的一球，也同樣感到欣喜若狂。

3. He gets vicarious thrills from watching people bungee jumping.: 看到別人蹦極他感到了同樣的刺激.

4. I love reading: I have an insatiable appetite for vicarious experience.: 我喜歡讀書,對(duì)于體驗(yàn)間接經(jīng)歷有一種不能滿足的渴求.

5. He gained vicarious pleasure from watching people laughing and joking.: 他看到人們談笑,自己也感到很高興.