vicarious

• adj.代用；代理；同調

ラテン語のvicis「変える」「伝える」「継ぐ」、PIE*weik「曲げる」「回す」が語源で、語源はweek「ウィンチ」。

vicarious (adj.)

1630s, "taking the place of another," from Latin vicarius "that supplies a place; substituted, delegated," from vicis "a change, exchange, interchange; succession, alternation, substitution," from PIE root *weik- (4) "to bend, wind" (cognates: Sanskrit visti "changing, changeable;" Old English wician "to give way, yield," wice "wych elm;" Old Norse vikja "to bend, turn;" Swedish viker "willow twig, wand;" German wechsel "change").

From 1690s as "done or experienced in place of another" (usually in reference to punishment, often of Christ); from 1929 as "experienced imaginatively through another." Related: Vicariously.

1. She invents fantasy lives for her own vicarious pleasure.

彼女は様々な奇妙な生活を夢見て、思い入れの中から楽しみを得ている。

2.He got a vicarious thrill out of watching his son score the winning goal.

彼は息子が勝利のゴールを打ち込むのを見て、同様に喜びを感じた。

3.He gets vicarious thrills from watching people bungee jumping.

他の人がバンジーしているのを見て同じ刺激を感じた。

4.I love reading：I have an insatiable appetite for vicarious experience.

私は読書が好きで、間接的な体験には満足できない渇望があります。

5.He gained vicarious pleasure from watching people laughing and joking.

彼は人々が談笑しているのを見て、自分も喜んだ。