【每日一词】 vicarious - adj. 替代的；代理的；发同感的；凭想象而感受到的；
Definitions - adjective
vi·car·i·ous vī-ˈker-ē-əs və-
1: experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another
a vicarious thrill
2a: serving instead of someone or something else
2b: that has been delegated
vicarious authority
3: performed or suffered by one person as a substitute for another or to the benefit or advantage of another : SUBSTITUTIONARY
a vicarious sacrifice
4: occurring in an unexpected or abnormal part of the body instead of the usual one
vicarious menstruation manifested by bleeding from the nose
vicariously adverb
vicariousness noun
短语
vicarious liability: 替代责任；代理责任
vicarious learning: 替代学习；或替代练习；
vicarious reinforcement: 替代强化；替代增强
vicarious experience: 替代性经验；代理的经验
vicarious hypertrophy: 代偿性肥大；替代性肥大
vicarious hemorrhage: 代偿性出血
vicarious traumatization: 称为同感创伤；性创伤
vicarious infringement: 替代侵权；代位侵权
Vicarious Trauma: 替代性创伤；替代创伤
vicarious liability: 替代责任；转承债务
Examples of vicarious in a Sentence
I am a vicarious eater, often preferring a description of a meal to eating it. I hoard the Wednesday food section of the New York Times, savoring it as my late-night reading, finishing always with the restaurant review.
—Anne-Marie Slaughter, Commonweal, 14 June 2002
Most people caged in the humdrum routines of modern life are eager for vicarious glimpses of pain, joy, and especially vitality.
—Robert Jackall et al., Image Makers, 2000
There is an immense sub-middle with enough money to preserve it from rancorous envy of the rich, but not enough to preserve it from boredom; it needs vicarious compensations and manages to find them in the gossip columns.
—Aldous Huxley, The Olive Tree, 1937
To give himself the vicarious illusion of companionship, he fell back on letters.
—Amy Lowell, John Keats, 1925
By means of ferocious jokes … he could vent his hatred of pioneer life and all its conditions, those conditions that were thwarting his creative life; he could, in this vicarious manner, appease the artist in him …
—Van Wyck Brooks, The Ordeal of Mark Twain, 1920
Recent Examples on the Web
Still left undecided are claims that Disney is liable for vicarious and contributory copyright infringement, as well as patent infringement, for alleged use of the tech in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.
—Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024
Of course, that doesn't give investors the vicarious buzz of sharing in their favorite artists' success.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2024
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