empathy with/for• They could combine their compassion and empathy with being helpful.• Communication that demonstratesempathy for the listener will produce highly favorablereactions.• They feel empathy for what he felt.• Both authors have the skill to make you feel great empathy with their heroines.• Any practising industrial chemist will have great empathy with this and many other of the author's sentiments.• I felt a very realempathy for it.• Perhaps arising from the close personalcomradeship of those war years was Basil's empathy withordinary working folk.• He concludes, not by committing himself to atheism but showing empathy with it.
Originempathy
(1900-2000)Greekempatheia, from pathos“suffering, feeling”
ADJECTIVE | VERB + EMPATHY | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤deep, great深深的/高度的同情➤genuine, real真誠的/真正的同情➤human人類的同情心VERB + EMPATHY➤feel, have有同感▸➤demonstrate, express, show表露同感;表達同情;表示同情▸➤develop產生共鳴➤lack缺乏同情PREPOSITION➤empathy between⋯之間的同感◇The nurse should try to develop empathy between herself and the patient.護士應當努力與病人建立心理上的溝通。➤empathy for對⋯的同感◇I felt real empathy for my mother and what she had been through.我對母親和她所經歷的一切都深有同感。➤empathy with對⋯的同情心◇She had a deep empathy with animals.她對動物有濃濃的愛心。PHRASES➤a feeling of empathy同情心▸➤a lack of empathy缺乏同情心