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 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。
• 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）。
• 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。
• She criticized what she described as the film's cloying sentimentality.
  她批评这部影片如她所说的令人倒胃口的伤感情调。
• So put your sentimentality to the test and toss the damn thing.
  把你的情感寄望于这该诅咒的硬币上吧。
• One is sentimentality; the archetypical American child is Huckleberry Finn, who had little taste for formal education.
  令人感到无奈的是，典型的美国孩子都跟哈克贝里·费恩一样，对正规教育兴味索然。
• Sentimentality seems a characteristic of all the writers of that period.
  伤感似乎是那个时期所有作家的特征。
• 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。
• Not given to gentleness or sentimentality.
  不惯于亲切或感伤的。