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Word of the Day for Monday August 22, 2005

單字：
schadenfreude \SHOD-n-froy-duh\, noun:
A malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of others. (幸災樂禍)

例句：
That the report of Sebastian Imhof's grave illness might
also have been tinged with Schadenfreude appears not to
have crossed Lucas's mind.
--Steven Ozment, [1]Flesh and Spirit

He died three years after me -- cancer too -- and at that
time I was still naive enough to imagine that what the
afterlife chiefly provided were unrivalled opportunities
for unbeatable gloating, unbelievable schadenfreude.
--Will Self, [2]How The Dead Live

Somewhere out there, Pi supposed, some UC Berkeley grad
students must be shivering with a little Schadenfreude of
their own about what had happened to her.
--Sylvia Brownrigg, [3]The Metaphysical Touch

The historian Peter Gay -- who felt Schadenfreude as a
Jewish child in Nazi-era Berlin, watching the Germans lose
coveted gold medals in the 1936 Olympics -- has said that
it "can be one of the great joys of life."
--Edward Rothstein, "Missing the Fun of a Minor Sin,"
[4]New York Times, February 5, 2000

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