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Vicarious Place Bend Ious Vai'kɛəriəs A.替代的,代理的 英 Adj.间接的,代理的

单词 vicarious
音标 [vai'kɛəriəs]
解释 a.替代的,代理的
红宝书 【英】 adj.间接的,代理的 (serving in place of someone or something else)
【记】 来自vicar(牧师)+iou s,牧师是上帝的代言 人→代理的
【例】 vicarious punishment(代受的惩 罚)
字源 vicarious (adj.)
1630s, "taking the place of another," from Latin vicarius "that supplies a place; substituted, delegated," from vicis "a change, exchange, interchange; succession, alternation, substitution," from PIE root *weik- (4) "to bend, wind" (cognates: Sanskrit visti "changing, changeable;" Old English wician "to give way, yield," wice "wych elm;" Old Norse vikja "to bend, turn;" Swedish viker "willow twig, wand;" German wechsel "change").
From 1690s as "done or experienced in place of another" (usually in reference to punishment, often of Christ); from 1929 as "experienced imaginatively through another." Related: Vicariously.
不择手段背单词 adj. 代理的, 替代的(代替他人忍受或工作的)
【记】vicar(n 代理主教: 代替神父或主教的神职人员), ious: 代理的vi微, car车, ious: 微型的小汽车有代替大车的趋势-代替的
【反】firsthand(adj 直接的; 第一手的)
趣味全助记 【记】vice 副,代理,代替 + care 管理→副职,代理管理的
【相关】vice-president 副校长,vice 罪恶,钳住,代替 (罪人总会被钳住和代替的)

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