vicarious
adj. (想像别人苦乐情况)间接体验的; 替代别人的; 代理的; 受委托的
A vicarious pleasure or feeling is experienced by watching, listening to, or reading about other people doing something, rather than by doing it yourself.
She invents fantasy lives for her own vicarious pleasure...
她幻想过着各种奇妙的生活,从想入非非中获得乐趣。
Lots of people use television as their vicarious form of social life.
许多人从电视中间接感受社会生活。
1. experienced at secondhand;
2. occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function;
3. suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another;
He gets vicarious pleasure by going to watch films about sex.
他去看色情电影,藉以从想象中获得代入感的愉悦.
He gets vicarious thrills from watching people bungee jumping.
看到别人蹦极他感到了同样的刺激.
I love reading: I have an insatiable appetite for vicarious experience.
我喜欢读书,对于体验间接经历有一种不能满足的渴求.
Her son's achievements gave her vicarious pleasure.
她儿子的成就给予她感同身受的喜悦.
Criminal fine exchanging institution is a vicarious system when criminal fine can not be carried out.
罚金刑易科,是指在不能执行罚金刑时采取其他措施来替代执行罚金刑的制度.