I thought you were more generous, more tender. I'm not so bad."
He eyed her thoughtfully, tenderly, hoping to move her through her love for him. "Sympathy! Sympathy!" She turned on him blazing. "A lot you know about sympathy! I suppose I didn't give you any sympathy when you were in the penitentiary in Philadelphia, did I? A lot of good it did me--didn't it? Sympathy!英文原著 · 《The Titan》
The king was safe; his duty was as good as done; his conscience was at ease in that direction. He needed not love, he thought, so much as sympathy. Sympathy. He turned over the word in his mind as a gem merchant turns over in his hand a precious jewel. Sympathy; it was the key to all he desired --woman's sympathy. There was nothing but ash in the bowl of his pipe, but he continued to puff. Madame was seated at the piano again, idly thrumming soft minor chords. She was waiting for him to speak; she wanted to test his voice, to know and measure its emotion.英文原著 · 《The Puppet Crown》
"His patience and sympathy were boundless during this weary illness, and sometimes when most miserable I felt his sympathy to be almost too keen. When at my worst, we went to my aunt's house at Hartfield, in Sussex, and as soon as we had made the move safely he went on to Moor Park for a fortnight's water-cure. I can recall now how on his return I could hardly bear to have him in the room, the expression of tender sympathy and emotion in his face was too agitating, coming fresh upon me after his little absence.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-1》
But it was during that interim of anguish and meditation that England did us most of the harm which our memories vaguely but violently treasure. Until the Emancipation, we gave our English friends no public, official grounds for their sympathy, and consequently their influence over our English enemies was hampered. Instantly after January 1, 1863, that sympathy became the deciding voice. Our enemies could no longer say to it, "but Lincoln says himself that he doesn't intend to abolish slavery."英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
To analyze the psychology of political violence is not only extremely difficult, but also very dangerous. If such acts are treated with understanding, one is immediately accused of eulogizing them. If, on the other hand, human sympathy is expressed with the ATTENTATER,* one risks being considered a possible accomplice. Yet it is only intelligence and sympathy that can bring us closer to the source of human suffering, and teach us the ultimate way out of it.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
It is the mystery of mysteries. I love you, because I love you: I know of no other explanation. You have certainly never made any very flattering advances to me. I think I have sometimes even had cause to complain of you. "Ah, well! in spite of your scorn, of your haughtiness, of your injustice, I loved you. Ask the secret of this anomaly of Him who created man, and who planted in his heart that mysterious power which is called sympathy." "Why," said Stephane, "was not this sympathy reciprocal? As for me, from the first day I saw you I hated you.英文原著 · 《Andre Cornelis》
You're making work for yourself, Mr Carson, - and I've no sympathy with that. - I'm not asking for sympathy.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
I know all of that, but you said it yourself, we need sympathy, and no one is gonna get us more sympathy than the innocent guy we got out of prison.美剧 · 《Suits》