sentimentality

英 [ˌsentɪmenˈtæləti]

美 [ˌsentɪmenˈtæləti]

n.  感伤情调; 多愁善感

医学

BNC.18455 / COCA.17949

牛津词典

noun

• 感伤情调；多愁善感
  the quality of being too sentimental

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 感伤的;多情的;多愁善感的
  Someone or something that issentimentalfeels or shows pity or love, sometimes to an extent that is considered exaggerated and foolish.
  1. I'm trying not to be sentimental about the past...
     我努力不让自己表现得感怀过去。
  2. It's a very sentimental play.
     这是一部十分煽情的戏。
• ADJ 情感(上)的;(尤指)(出于)怀旧的
  Sentimentalmeans relating to or involving feelings such as pity or love, especially for things in the past.
  1. Our paintings and photographs are of sentimental value only...
     我们的画作和照片仅有纪念价值。
  2. Perhaps he has returned for sentimental reasons.
     也许他是出于情感上的原因才回来的。

英英释义

noun

• falsely emotional in a maudlin way
  Synonym:mawkishnessdrippinessmushinesssoupinesssloppiness
• extravagant or affected feeling or emotion

双语例句

• Another chief text of Manhattan sentimentality is "yes, Virginia".
  另一体现曼哈顿多愁善感的作品当属《是啊，弗吉尼亚》（yes，virginia）。
• I believe in human beings, but my faith is without sentimentality.
  我相信人类，但我的信念绝非是滥施情感。
• If time can offset sentimentality, I am willing to unlimited burning.
  如果时间能抵消感伤，我愿意无限制燃烧。
• Because of your occasional sentimentality.
  因为你偶尔的多愁善感。
• I thought they overdid the sentimentality at the end of the film.
  我觉得他们在电影的结尾部分煽情得过火了。
• But that's enough maudlin sentimentality, I have work to do!
  但那已多愁善感足够了，我有工作要做！
• A famous 18th-century play by Richard Sheridan about gossip, hypocrisy, and false sentimentality.
  理查德？谢里丹著名的18世纪喜剧，讽刺了造谣生事、虚伪和矫情造作。
• An intolerable degree of sentimentality.
  感伤到了无法忍受的程度。
• This young lady was known to the whole town for her sentimentality.
  这位年轻的小姐以她的易伤感而闻名全城。
• The nurse looked at me sadly. given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality.
  护士伤感地看着我。惯于感伤的或以感情、感伤为特征。