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empathize

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++em·pa·thize (also empathise British English) /ˈempəθaɪz/ verb [intransitive]  UNDERSTANDto be able to understand someone else’s feelings, problems etc, especially because you have had similar experiences 同情;有同感,产生共鸣 sympathizeempathize with My mother died last year so I can really empathize with what he’s going through. 我母亲去年过世了,所以我非常理解他的感受。→ See Verb table
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empathizeYou can easily begin empathizing with situations you only imagine.Parents need to continue to empathize with the child.No two humans ever communicated to the fullest extent if they did not empathize with the mind of the other.Most of all, I empathize with the trade-offs they made, or had to make.I tried to empathize with their own differing emotional reactions and the fact that they were falling into their own traps again.They can be written about in such a way that some one else is able to empathize with them.She could certainly empathize with this situation and her sympathies were not with the weeping marine.
em·pa·thize verbChineseSyllable
be able Corpus else’s someone etc, especially feelings, to to understand problems


empathize
empathize (also empathise British English) /ˈempəθaɪz/ verb [intransitive]
to be able to understand someone else’s feelings, problems etc, especially because you have had similar experiences ⇨ sympathize
    empathize with
    My mother died last year so I can really empathize with what he’s going through.


em·pa·thize (BrE also em·pa·thise) BrE /ˈempəθaɪz/ 🔊NAmE /ˈempəθaɪz/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they empathize BrE /ˈempəθaɪz/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈempəθaɪz/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it empathizes BrE /ˈempəθaɪzɪz/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈempəθaɪzɪz/ 🔊past simple empathized BrE /ˈempəθaɪzd/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈempəθaɪzd/ 🔊past participle empathized BrE /ˈempəθaɪzd/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈempəθaɪzd/ 🔊 -ing form empathizing BrE /ˈempəθaɪzɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈempəθaɪzɪŋ/ 🔊 [intransitive] ~ (with sb/sth) to understand another person's feelings and experiences, especially because you have been in a similar situation 有同感;产生共鸣;同情