empathy /ˈempəθi/IELTS丨TOEFL丨专八 外刊例句 People who were most altruistic after training showed the biggest increases in activity in brain areas involved in empathy and positive emotion. So empathy appears to be like a muscle—it can be built up by exercise that causes actual physiological changes.那些在训练后体现最为慷慨的试验者，其大脑内与同情和努力情绪有关的区域的运动大为增强。因此，同情心似乎与肌肉类似——可以通过能引起真正生理变化的训练来建设。基本释义 empathy: Empathy is the ability to share another person's feelings and emotions as if they were your own.n. 同情心；感同身受；共识 追根溯源 单词empathy里的词根path泉源于希腊语pathos, 意思是“感受”。所以呢，在英语里，泛起跟path相关的单词，大多都与此相关。

例如：pathetic /pəˈθetɪk/adj. 可怜的，悲伤的apathetic /ˌæpəˈθetɪk/adj. 冷漠的；无动于衷的sympathy /ˈsɪmpəθi/n. 同情；慰问psychopath /ˈsaɪkəpæθ/n. 神经病患者这样记单词，是不是感受很轻松呢？这个词根的泉源，以及知识点的拓展，在韦小绿《Vocabulary Builder》这本书里，写的很是详细：。