喜樂美語

Looking at what someone else has and feeling the gap: you want that thing, that ability, or that life, and it is theirs, not yours. The eye goes to the other person's side and the feeling turns back on yourself.

可以想成一個「眼睛看著別人手上的東西」的畫面：對方有的能力、東西或生活，你也想要，可是它在對方那邊，不在你這邊。那個落差就是這個字的感覺——注意力朝外看別人，情緒卻回到自己身上。英文的 envy 可以是動詞（我羨慕你）也可以是名詞（那份羨慕），兩邊是同一個心情，只是換個詞性。

Two branches

羨慕的心情本身

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envy (feeling, noun) · noun · B2

the feeling you get when someone else has something that you want, and you wish it were yours.

羨慕；忌妒

只活在固定句型裡的兩個用法

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I don't envy you · verb · B2

used in the phrase 'I don't envy you/him/them' to say that you are glad you are not in the difficult situation that someone else is in.

還好不是我（同情的說法）

同家族的字

過去式 envied過去分詞 envied-ing envying三單 envies

意思相近

jealousycovetousnesslongingcovetbe envious ofbe jealous ofrather you than mebetter you than methe pride ofmuch admired

用法接近

admirationresentmentgreedadmirelook up towishsympathizefeel forenviableadmiredsought after

原始詞典資料14 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

envynoun/ˈɛnvi/

  • 1

    Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).

    • No bliss enjoyed by us excites his envy more.
    • Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave.
  • 2

    An object of envious notice or feeling.

    • This constitution in former days used to be the envy of the world[.]
    • Blacke Foryst of Despayr, taking photos of the band Put 'em up on Myspace you're the envy of the land
  • 3

    obsoleteHatred, enmity, ill-feeling.

    • Syre said laūcelot vnto Arthur by this crye that ye haue made ye wyll put vs that ben aboute yow in grete Ieopardy for there be many Knyghtes that haue grete enuye to vs therfore whan we shal mete at the daye of Iustes there wille be hard skyfte amonge vs
    • But let me tell the World, If he out-liue the enuie of this day, England did neuer owe so sweet a hope, So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse.
  • 4

    obsoleteEmulation; rivalry.

    • c. 1631-1636, John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble Such as cleanliness and decency Prompt to a virtuous envy.
  • 5

    obsoletePublic odium; ill repute.

    • to lay the envy of the war upon Cicero
  • 6

    A red-skinned variety of eating apple.

envyverb/ˈɛnvi/

  • 1

    To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions.

    • Moon and Kim took a cable car together to Heaven Lake, a caldera at the top of the mountain, and walked around the area with their wives and officials from both sides. Pictures showed Moon and Kim smiling and posing with their wives, and Moon filling a bottle with water from the lake. “The Chinese envy us because they can’t go down to the lake from their side but we can,” Kim said. “We should write another chapter of history between the North and the South by reflecting our new history on this Heaven Lake.”
  • 2

    To resentfully or discontentedly desire (something someone else has that one lacks).

  • 3

    obsoleteTo have envious feelings (at).

    • I do not envy at their wealth, titles, offices;[…]let me live quiet and at ease.
    • Who envy at the prosperity of the wicked?
  • 4

    obsoleteTo give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge.

    • But that sweet Cordiall, which can restore A loue-sick hart, she did to him enuy[…].
  • 5

    obsoleteTo show malice or ill will; to rail.

    • He has[…]envied against the people.
  • 6

    obsoleteTo do harm to; to injure; to disparage.

    • If I make a lie To gain your love and envy my best mistress, Put me against a wall.
  • 7

    obsoleteTo hate.

    • Both jealous of my love, envied each other
  • 8

    obsoleteTo emulate.

    • Let later age that noble vse enuie, Vile rancour to auoid, and cruell surquedrie

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