sympathetically
同情地,共鸣地,体谅地,恻隐之心
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- : characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- : acting or affected by, of the nature of, or pertaining to a special affinity or mutual relationship; congenial: With their many similar tastes, he found her a most sympathetic companion.
- : looking upon with favor: She is sympathetic to the project.
- : Anatomy, Physiology. pertaining to that part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves that arise from the thoracic and lumbar regions of the spinal cord, and functioning in opposition to the parasympathetic system, as in stimulating heartbeat, dilating the pupil of the eye, etc.Obsolete.pertaining to the autonomic nervous system in its entirety.
- : Physics. noting or pertaining to vibrations, sounds, etc., produced by a body as the direct result of similar vibrations in a different body.
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Examples
In the meeting with Dunleavy, the woman said, she was tearful and the governor seemed sympathetic, telling her she had done nothing wrong.
Lucia told me, “He was sympathetic that I prefer to read in Spanish.”
Fletcher has had to claw for every advantage he could get on the board with the occasional support of two other sympathetic supervisors with very different political priorities.
Although she wasn’t as harsh as some of her conservative colleagues on the bench, she nonetheless appeared sympathetic to Catholic Social Services.
The last group excluded by the IRS — people who died before the stimulus payment reached them — may not seem sympathetic.
“Whether or not a perpetrator is portrayed sympathetically is not all that important,” Surette pointed out.
Will a St. Louis County jury be likely to look sympathetically upon Michael Brown?
Hellman's dishonesty in her later writing is sympathetically framed by the decades of criticism she had endured.
At the time, Banks responded sympathetically, saying that the agency that signed Curry made the mistake of sending her abroad.
I smile sympathetically and look at my watch: the actions of a man who wishes him well in his decision but must now go to work.
"Tough—but most of us have been there, one time or another," Goodell observed sympathetically; and with that the subject rested.
"It's too bad," murmured Susie sympathetically, as she passed a wet cloth back and forth over the girl's face.