在汉语翻译中，"envious"和"jealous"都可译为"羡慕"或"嫉妒"，但存在以下关键区别：
1. 情感强度差异
-- Envious（羡慕）：表示对他人拥有之物的渴望（中性偏积极）
例：She was envious of her colleague's promotion.（她羡慕同事的升职）
翻译技巧：中文多用"羡慕"或"有点眼红"
-- Jealous（嫉妒）：带有强烈负面情绪，常伴随不安/占有欲
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【Envious】 , 【jealous】 , though not close synonyms, are comparable because both carry as their basic meaning that of grudging another's possession of something desirable.
【Envious】 stresses a coveting of something (as riches, possessions, or attainments) which belongs to another or of something (as success or good fortune) which has come to another. It may imply either a gnawing, often a malicious, desire to deprive one of what gives him gratification, or a spiteful delight in his dispossession or loss of it.
Frequently, however, the stress is on coveting rather than on a desire to injure.
【Jealous】 often stresses intolerance of a rival for the possession of a thing which one regards as peculiarly one's own or on the winning of which one has set one's heart, but sometimes it merely implies intensely zealous efforts to keep or maintain what one possesses. The term often is used without derogation.
However the term usually carries a strong implication of distrust, suspicion, enviousness, or sometimes anger.
