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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- empathy ['εmpəθɪ]
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n
the power of understanding and imaginatively entering into another person's feelings - See also identification
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the attribution to an object, such as a work of art, of one's own emotional or intellectual feelings about it
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[Etymology]
C20: from Greek empatheia affection, passion, intended as a rendering of German Einfühlung, literally: a feeling in; see
en- 2,-pathy
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the power of understanding and imaginatively entering into another person's feelings - See also identification
Examples
- 我们处理问题也要有些人情味儿。
- We should show empathy when we deal with problems. → 人情味儿
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