sympathy

英['sɪmpəθɪ] 美['sɪmpəθi]

复数: sympathies;

sympathy 同情，同感

sym-,一起，一致，-path,感觉，词源同 antipathy,empathy.

sympathy: 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.

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。

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。

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。

5. Milne resigned in sympathy because of the way Donald had been treated.: 米尔恩以辞职来抗议唐纳德所遭受的不公待遇。