vicarious
英 [vɪ'keərɪəs; vaɪ-]
美 [vaɪ'kɛrɪəs]
vicarious 助记提示
1. vice-, vicar => vicarious.
vicarious 中文词源
vicarious 感同身受的来自拉丁语vicis,改变，交流，继任，来自PIE*weik,弯，转，词源同week,winch.引申词义感同身受的。
vicarious 英文词源
- 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.
vicarious 双语例句
1. She invents fantasy lives for her own vicarious pleasure. 她幻想过着各种奇妙的生活，从想入非非中获得乐趣。 来自柯林斯例句
- 2. 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。
来自《权威词典》
- 3. He gets vicarious thrills from watching people bungee jumping.
- 看到别人蹦极他感到了同样的刺激.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. I love reading: I have an insatiable appetite for vicarious experience.
- 我喜欢读书,对于体验间接经历有一种不能满足的渴求.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. He gained vicarious pleasure from watching people laughing and joking.
- 他看到人们谈笑,自己也感到很高兴.
来自《简明英汉词典》