vicarious
adj. (想像別人苦樂情況)間接體驗的; 替代別人的; 代理的; 受委託的
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...
她幻想過著各種奇妙的生活,從想入非非中獲得樂趣。
Lots of people use television as their vicarious form of social life.
許多人從電視中間接感受社會生活。
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.
他去看色情電影,藉以從想象中獲得代入感的愉悅.
He gets vicarious thrills from watching people bungee jumping.
看到別人高空彈跳他感到了同樣的刺激.
I love reading: I have an insatiable appetite for vicarious experience.
我喜歡讀書,對於體驗間接經歷有一種不能滿足的渴求.
Her son's achievements gave her vicarious pleasure.
她兒子的成就給予她感同身受的喜悅.
Criminal fine exchanging institution is a vicarious system when criminal fine can not be carried out.
罰金刑易科,是指在不能執行罰金刑時採取其他措施來替代執行罰金刑的制度.