vicarious 的定义
- 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.
vicarious 近义词
done or felt for, or on behalf of, another
更多vicarious例句
- 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.