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

• Not given to gentleness or sentimentality.
  不惯于亲切或感伤的。
• The director discovered a rich vein of sentimentality
  导演发现了一个丰富的情感源泉。
• An intolerable degree of sentimentality.
  感伤到了无法忍受的程度。
• I was sure I wasn't going to be taken in by this kind of sentimentality.
  我相信我决不会为这种假作多情所欺骗。
• 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。
• He did not move toward us from sentimentality.
  他向我们靠拢不是感情用事。
• 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！
• His poems breathe sentimentality.
  他的诗歌流露多愁善感的情调。
• That is part of what I mean by sentimentality.
  这就是我说的多愁善感的一部分。
• 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。