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Перевод:
vicarious
[прилагательное]
замещающий другого; заменяющий; заместительный; сделанный за другого; косвенный; чужой; викарный
Тезаурус:
Disapproving as he was, he still seems to have found
vicarious
excitement in talking weapons.
Similar temptations overcame philosophers concerned with establishing a secure base for individual responsibility (e.g. as in estoppel and in various forms of
vicarious
liability, such as conspiracy, agency, authorization or complicity) or for exemption from liability (e.g. in doctrines about the assumption of risk).
Beige popsters take a
vicarious
pride in the slow baptism of fire that their chosen genre and its protagonists underwent.
Is it that of a
vicarious
believer, if such a person is possible?
It also promotes a neurotic insecurity, reflected in the sillier newspaper headlines - "Briton insulted on the Costa Brava" or
vicarious
triumphs of infantile egotism ("Krauts firmly put down").
But you understand now what the term "
vicarious
sacrifice" means - it means that someone else, or, in the Old Testament, something else - a goat, a bull - took your sin for you.
Vicarious
means a "standin", someone who replaces you.
She does have affection for him but is not over-impressed with his success as a writer and she speaks directly from her own experience rather than any
vicarious
sensations.
Here is the first theological word:
vicarious
.
His fascination leads him to an agency which administers mental implants, so that he can have the
vicarious
experience of interplanetary travel injected into his memory.
Perhaps you would like to help; please do not feel maudlin or offer a
vicarious
prayer.
I was in a fever of
vicarious
excitement, looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961, but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family, whether I'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories, and whether I'd made good any gaps in my daughter's domestic skills.
We'd compare this inside view of machismo with the deconstruction of masculinity in Scorsese's films: in Taxi Driver, for example, we're drawn into
vicarious
participation in a spectacular massacre, only for the camera to draw back and reveal the real carnage, suffering and shock that such an exercise of male power entails.
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