compassion
英 [k?m'p??(?)n]
美[k?m'p???n]
- n. 同情；怜悯
CET6+TEM4GRE考研中低频词常用词汇
中文词源
compassion 同情
com-, 强调。-pat, 情感，忍受，词源同patient, passion.
英文词源
- compassion (n.)
- mid-14c., from Old French compassion "sympathy, pity" (12c.), from Late Latin compassionem (nominative compassio) "sympathy," noun of state from past participle stem of compati "to feel pity," from com- "together" (see com-) + pati "to suffer" (see passion).
Latin compassio is an ecclesiastical loan-translation of Greek sympatheia (see sympathy). An Old English loan-translation of compassion was efenerowung.
双语例句
- 1. The president insisted that he was acting out of compassion, not opportunism.
- 总统坚持说他如此做是出于同情而不是为了投机。
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- 2. This comedy of contemporary manners is told with compassion and acid humour.
- 这部当代风尚喜剧杂糅了悲悯的情怀和尖酸的幽默。
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- 3. I feel more compassion and less anger than I used to.
- 我觉得自己比过去多了些同情，少了些怒气。
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- 4. Mum was incensed at his lack of compassion.
- 妈妈被他缺乏同情心的表现激怒了。
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- 5. They were godlike in their wisdom and compassion.
- 他们有上帝般的智慧和同情心。
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