empathy
 offer/send your sympathiesformal
to express your sadness to someone because a relation or friend of theirs has recently died: 慰问，吊唁，吊慰
I went along to the funeral in order to offer my sympathies.我去参加了葬礼以表吊慰。
She said that she was deeply moved by all the letters of sympathy she had received.她说她被收到的所有慰问信深深打动了。
I have absolutely no sympathy for people who get into debt by overspending.
George was a wonderful man - you have my greatest sympathy.
It's your own fault Colin, you'll get no sympathy from me!
I feel a lot of sympathy for him, it can't be easy bringing up three children on your own.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Sympathy & compassion
aw
bad/hard/tough luck!idiom
better luck next timeidiom
bleeding heart
cheese
heart-wrenching
heart-wrenchingly
heartrending
pitiful
pitifully
pitifulness
pity
pityingly
relate
sensitivity
sympathetic
sympathize
too badidiom
your heart achesidiom
your heart goes out to someoneidiom

sympathynoun (SUPPORT)

C2[ U ]
support and agreement: 支持，赞同
sympathy withI must confess I have some sympathy with his views.我必须承认我比较赞同他的观点。
 sympathies[ plural ]
support: 支持
sympathies are withOf those people questioned, 93 percent said their sympathies were with the teachers.接受调查的人当中有93%表示支持教师。
 come out in sympathy with someoneUK
to stop working in order to show your support for other workers who are on strike: 参加罢工以支持（某人）
The railway workers came out in sympathy with the miners.铁路工人加入了罢工，声援煤矿工人。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Accepting & agreeing
accepting
accommodation
accreditation
agree to something
agree with something
assent
compact
conclusion
countenance
currency
formal
pre-approved
presumed consent
ratification
ratify
re-establish
regrant
root
signatory
unquestioning

sympathy | American Dictionary

sympathy
noun[ U ]
us/ˈsɪm·pə·θi/

sympathynoun[U] (UNDERSTANDING)

a feeling or expression of understanding and caring for someone else who is suffering or has problems that have caused unhappiness:
When Robert died, I sent a letter of sympathy to his wife.

sympathynoun[U] (SUPPORT)

a feeling or expression of support and agreement:
She tends to be in sympathy with the left wing of the party.
[ pl ]On the subject of wilderness, her sympathies were clearly pro-environmental.

sympathy | Business English

sympathy
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˈsɪmpəθi/us
the act of showing understanding for someone or for a particular situation:
sympathy for sbThe prime minister expressed his sympathy for those injured in the attacks.
have great/little/no sympathy for sthLocals have little sympathy for the chemical company following the toxic waste disaster.
 come/walk out in sympathy
HR, WORKPLACE
to stop working in order to show your support for a group of workers who are on strike :
The airline's ground staff walked out in sympathy with catering contractors.
 in sympathy
if prices on a market rise or go down in sympathy with others, they do this as a result of the others rising or going down:
Gilts advanced 23p in sympathy with the overnight rise in US treasury bonds.

Examples of sympathy

sympathy
The municipal president claimed that a 'demonstration of sympathies ' on the part of an agrarista regidor had given rise to the ' mutiny'.
Their moral imagination was constricted, their sympathies limited.
One feels that he is hoarding his sympathies.
Subjective assessment of symptoms and signs means that often correct diagnosis relies on the awareness and sympathies of the attending healthcare professional.
He tries, largely successfully, to provide an objective overview of both sides of the campaign, although-by his own admission-his sympathies are with those promoting protection.
The final two chapters discuss the application of his intellectual sympathies to contemporary affairs.
Indeed, this was part of her deliberate strategy to elicit the sympathies of the magazine-reading public.
Human sympathies are notoriously fickle and attach to all sorts of objects, both appropriate and inappropriate.
Accused of communist sympathies, he was imprisoned in 1976 for five years.
His sympathies lie with the small congregations and the forms of activity undertaken by their membership.
Activists with pro-labour sympathies assumed advisory roles in key ministries.
He was later renowned for his puritan sympathies.
Indeed, the classic dichotomy of "loyal minority" or "irredentist nationalist" fails to capture their competing and overlapping sympathies and interests.
The portrait thus conveyed is that of someone who began life with socialist sympathies, but was weaned off them by reasoned arguments.
Any natural philosophical strategy which excluded spirits and sympathies from its world was condemned as tending to subversion and irreligion.
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Collocations withsympathy

sympathy

These are words often used in combination with sympathy.

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a great deal of sympathy
There is a great dealofsympathy.
a lot of sympathy
We have a lotofsympathy with the model.
certain sympathy
Where widows might receive a certainsympathy or respect, or even both, spinsters were generally viewed with deep suspicion, whether young, ' life-cycle ', spinsters or older, ' lifelong ', single women.
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