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

• The director discovered a rich vein of sentimentality
  导演发现了一个丰富的情感源泉。
• 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。
• Because of your occasional sentimentality.
  因为你偶尔的多愁善感。
• It is only with my friends who are also grandmothers that I can really relax and talk with undiluted sentimentality about the beauty and the brilliance of my Edie Bear.
  我只有和那些同样当了祖母的朋友在一起时才能真正放心畅谈我漂亮聪明的孙女。和母爱一样，祖母对孙辈的感情也同样强烈。
• That is part of what I mean by sentimentality.
  这就是我说的多愁善感的一部分。
• 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。
• 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）。
• The Israelis have no time for sentimentality about Bethlehem either.
  以色列人也没时间因为伯利恒而多愁善感。
• 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。
• It looks smooth with its characteristic antiquity often arousing one's sentimentality.
  平滑，特有的古老常常唤起人们的情怀。