vicarious

/vahy-kair-ee-uhs, vi-/US // vaɪˈkɛər i əs, vɪ- //UK // (vɪˈkɛərɪəs, vaɪ-) //

转承,转承式,替代性,转移性

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
- : taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute.
- : felt or enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others: a vicarious thrill.
- : Physiology. noting or pertaining to a situation in which one organ performs part of the functions normally performed by another.

adj.done or felt for, or on behalf of, another

Synonyms

I collected bits of them, but my blitz was safely vicarious.
But the old city, site of the bull run, has the inevitable trappings of a theme park for aficionados of the vicarious kind.
David, I want to shake you and say, do not use our lives as vicarious proof for your consumer conservatism.
He reads biographies, he dreams of great men—a vicarious pleasure, presumably.
But the appeal of Harlequins is more than just vicarious sex.
You may think I'm offering myself as a sort of vicarious atonement—if your Doris fails you—but I'm not, really.
This always occasioned a double execution, for the wrath or revenge of Louis was never satisfied with a vicarious punishment.
Here are three measures of subjugation, all flowing from the same fountain of Principle—vicarious government by a feudal superior.
To-day he was in the state of mind when even vicarious good 202 deeds are a support and a consolation.
The scandalmonger, inhibited from doing the forbidden thing, enjoys himself by a vicarious indulgence in rottenness.

/vahy-kair-ee-uhs, vi-/US // vaɪˈkɛər i əs, vɪ- //UK // (vɪˈkɛərɪəs, vaɪ-) //

转承,转承式,替代性,转移性

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
- : taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute.
- : felt or enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others: a vicarious thrill.
- : Physiology. noting or pertaining to a situation in which one organ performs part of the functions normally performed by another.

adj.done or felt for, or on behalf of, another

Synonyms

I collected bits of them, but my blitz was safely vicarious.
But the old city, site of the bull run, has the inevitable trappings of a theme park for aficionados of the vicarious kind.
David, I want to shake you and say, do not use our lives as vicarious proof for your consumer conservatism.
He reads biographies, he dreams of great men—a vicarious pleasure, presumably.
But the appeal of Harlequins is more than just vicarious sex.
You may think I'm offering myself as a sort of vicarious atonement—if your Doris fails you—but I'm not, really.
This always occasioned a double execution, for the wrath or revenge of Louis was never satisfied with a vicarious punishment.
Here are three measures of subjugation, all flowing from the same fountain of Principle—vicarious government by a feudal superior.
To-day he was in the state of mind when even vicarious good 202 deeds are a support and a consolation.
The scandalmonger, inhibited from doing the forbidden thing, enjoys himself by a vicarious indulgence in rottenness.