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

• 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。
• If we're to solve this global problem, we need more globalization and less sentimentality.
  如果我们要解决这个全球性的问题，那么我们需要更多的全球化和更少的情绪。
• Not given to gentleness or sentimentality.
  不惯于亲切或感伤的。
• 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。
• 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。
• His poems breathe sentimentality.
  他的诗歌流露多愁善感的情调。
• 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。
• The film is spoilt by a slightly treacly sentimentality.
  这部电影让稍微过分甜蜜的情感给毁了。
• 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。