We should express sympathy for the people who are unlucky, whether they are family members or complete strangers.

我们应该对不幸的人表示同情，无论他们是家人还是完全陌生的人。

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Or maybe you want to express sympathy for a colleague's situation without appearing to accept responsibility for something you didn't do.

或者你想对一位同事的处境表示同情，但是并不想把不是你的过错揽到自己身上。

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She was about to express her sympathy for his old classmate when Henry mentioned that the guy had once pursued Caroline when he was in Vietnam.

自晨刚要表达自己对他老同学的同情，亨利又提到，那家伙趁他在越南时，曾一度追求过卡洛琳。

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But rather to express sympathy for what somebody else is going through.

而是对其他人的经历表示同情。

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Europeans, in particular, express sympathy for the argument that both serve the purpose of supplementing low wages, both are implicitly or expressly extortionate in nature and both are paid with the expectation of a quid pro quo.

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If Cablevision officials could speak candidly, they might express some sympathy for their soon-to-be competitors--the cable industry went through the same process 20 and 30 years ago, when it first secured franchise agreements, offering towns incentives like community access channels in return for the right to pipe TV into their homes.

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David Brown, Managing Director, Cardiff Bus, said the firm would again like to express its deepest sympathy for Luke Tanhai's family.

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