sympathy: [16] Sympathy is etymologically ‘feeling with’ someone else. The word comes via Latin sympathīa from Greek sumpátheia, a derivative of sumpathés ‘feeling with or similarly to someone else’. This was a compound adjective formed from the prefix sun- ‘together, with, like’ and páthos ‘feeling’ (source of English pathetic [16], pathology [17], pathos [17], etc). => pathetic, pathology, pathos
sympathy (n.)
1570s, "affinity between certain things," from Middle French sympathie (16c.) and directly from Late Latin sympathia "community of feeling, sympathy," from Greek sympatheia "fellow-feeling, community of feeling," from sympathes "having a fellow feeling, affected by like feelings," from assimilated form of syn- "together" (see syn-) + pathos "feeling" (see pathos).
In English, almost a magical notion at first; used in reference to medicines that heal wounds when applied to a cloth stained with blood from the wound. Meaning "conformity of feelings" is from 1590s; sense of "fellow feeling, compassion" is first attested c. 1600. An Old English loan-translation of sympathy was efensargung.
实用例句
1. Several hundred workers struck in sympathy with their colleagues.
几百名工人罢工以声援他们的同事。来自柯林斯例句
2. I have had very little help from doctors and no sympathy whatsoever.
我从医生那里没有得到什么帮助，也未获得丝毫同情。来自柯林斯例句
3. It sounds as if he's just angling for sympathy.
听起来好像他只是在博取同情。来自柯林斯例句
4. The President has offered his sympathy to the Georgian people.
总统对格鲁吉亚人民表示了同情。来自柯林斯例句
5. Milne resigned in sympathy because of the way Donald had been treated.
