schadenfreude

Jennifer WeinerのFly Away Homeを読んでいます。
Sylvie thought of the laptop, its flickering screen. She remembered a Leonard Cohen song that Lizzie used to play, over and over, in the middle of the night, which honestly, in retrospect, should have been a sign: “Everybody Knows,” the song was called. When Eliot Spitzer had had his troubles, out of some mixture of sympathy and schadenfreude, she’d Googled Silda Spitzer’s name, and been horrified (and, a little titillated) by what she’d read.
"schadenfreude" は人の不幸を喜ぶ気持ちを表すユニークな意味を持っているので、十年前(2/23/2007)に初めて知った単語ですが、珍しく直ぐに覚えられました。