vicarious
Word family adverbvicariouslynounvicariousnessadjectivevicarious
vi·car·i·ous /vɪˈkeəriəs $ vaɪˈker-/ adjectiveadj [only before noun] PERSONALLY/YOURSELFexperienced by watching or reading about someone else doing something, rather than by doing it yourself 间接体验他人感受的;产生同感[共鸣]的vicarious pleasure/satisfaction/excitement etc the vicarious pleasure that parents get from their children’s success 父母对子女成功感同身受的快乐
—vicariously adverbadv
vicarious pleasure/satisfaction/excitement etc• The sense in which he has created it - by writing the poem - is acknowledged to be simply vicarious pleasure.• I laugh a lot, throwing my head back with vicarious pleasure at many of these stories.• Disapproving as he was, he still seems to have found vicarious excitement in talking weapons. Origin vicarious (1600-1700) Latin vicarius “acting in place of another”, from vicis “change, alternation, position”