SYMPATHY

Pronunție (USA): (GB):

Traducere în limba română

sympathy substantiv

1. simpatie; compasiune, milă, compătimire; condoleanţe;

accept my deep sympathy primiţi condoleanţele mele;

to stir up sympathy for the oppressed a trezi simpatie / compasiune / compătimire / înţelegere pentru cei asupriţi.

2. simpatie, atracţie;

to feel sympathy for smb. a se simţi atras de cineva, a simpatiza pe cineva, a nutri sentimente de simpatie faţă de cineva;

to be in sympathy with smb.'s ideas a se asocia la ideile cuiva, a privi cu simpatie ideile cuiva;

to strike in sympathy a face grevă de solidaritate;

to have no sympathy with a fi adversarul declarat al (cu gen.), a nu aproba, a nu încuraja (cu ac.);

string that vibrates in sympathy coardă care vibrează datorită rezonanţei.

3. (biol. etc.) simpatie.

Her face was all sympathy when she did speak.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

It was so nice to be able to tell you and to have your sympathy.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

But he followed, asking with an air of sympathy, "Did you have a bad time?"

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

A sudden and deep sympathy welled up in me.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

I claim your sympathy, then, in my investigation of Mr. Staunton’s fate.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I know that the sympathy of a stranger can be but of little relief to one borne down as you are by so strange a misfortune.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Oh yes, sir, cried she with ready sympathy, how you must miss her!

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

It made me very miserable to hear it, and I looked at Mrs. Micawber's red eyes with the utmost sympathy.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I mean, that human affections and sympathies have a most powerful hold on you.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

“It was a hard case, upon my word”; and, “I do think you were very much to be pitied,” were the kind responses of listening sympathy.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)