幸灾乐祸 / 幸災樂禍

xìng zāi lè huò

Meaning

• literally to take joy in calamity and delight in disaster (idiom) · figuratively to rejoice in other people's misfortune
• Schadenfreude

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Example sentences

• 幸灾乐祸是最大的乐事。

  幸災樂禍是最大的樂事。

  xìng zāi lè huò shì zuì dà de lè shì。

  Taking pleasure in others' misfortunes is the greatest joy.

• “幸灾乐祸”一词只在德语中有。

  “幸災樂禍”一詞只在德語中有。

  “ xìng zāi lè huò” yī cí zhǐ zài dé yǔ zhōng yǒu。

  The word “schadenfreude” exists only in German.

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