sympathy

• n.同情、哀悼、承認

sym-、一緒に、同意して、-道、感情、語源 反感、共感。

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.

数百人の労働者が同僚を応援するためにストライキを行った。

2.I have had very little help from doctors and no sympathy whatsoever.

私は医者から何の助けも得られず、同情も得られなかった。

3.It sounds as if he 's just angling for sympathy .

彼はただ同情を博しているように聞こえる。

4.The President has offered his sympathy to the Georgian people.

大統領はグルジア国民に同情した。

5.Mirne resigned in sympathy because of the way Donald had been treated.

ミルンは辞職してドナルドが受けた不公平な待遇に抗議した。