What a fearful thing is it that any language should have a word expressive of the pleasure which men feel at the calamities of others; for the existence of the word bears testimony to the existence of the thing. And yet in more than one such a word is found. ... In the Greek epikhairekakia, in the German, 'Schadenfreude.' [Richard C. Trench, "On the Study of Words," 1852]来自德语 Schadenfreude,幸灾乐祸，以别人的痛苦为乐，来自 schaden,伤害，损伤，词源同 scathe,freude,欢乐，快乐，原义为跳，词源同 frog,frolic.双字母-sc-在德语鼻音化为-sch-.
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