sentimental

adj.

1. 情感的（而非理性的）
   connected with your emotions, rather than reason
   1. She kept the letters for sentimental reasons.
      她把那些信留作纪念。
   2. The ring wasn't worth very much but it had great sentimental value .
      那枚戒指值不了几个钱，但却极有情感价值。
2. （失之过度或不恰当地）伤感的，充满柔情的；多愁善感的
   producing emotions such as pity, romantic love or sadness, which may be too strong or not appropriate; feeling these emotions too much
   1. a slushy, sentimental love story
      缠绵而无聊的言情小说
   2. He's not the sort of man who gets sentimental about old friendships.
      他不是那种为旧日的友情欷歔感伤的人。

1. ADJ-GRADED 感伤的;多情的;多愁善感的
   Someone or something that is sentimental feels 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。
2. ADJ 情感(上)的;(尤指)(出于)怀旧的
   Sentimental means 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。

1. For sentimental reasons I wanted to delay my departure until June
   因为感情方面的原因，我想把离开的日期延迟至6月。
2. The book's sentimental denouement is pure Hollywood.
   该书的煽情结局纯粹是好莱坞式的。
3. I can never understand why people become dewy-eyed and sentimental about the past.
   我无论如何也不能理解为什么一说起过去人们就会那么容易动情和伤感。
4. It just lodged in my mind as a very sentimental song
   这首歌令人感怀不已，我已牢牢记住。
5. For a while the artist completely lost his way. The famous humour gave way to sentimental nonsense
   有一阵子这位艺术家完全迷失了方向，其出了名的幽默风趣被伤感而煽情的不知所云取而代之。
6. A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable mawkish ending.
   一段灰暗而感伤的情节慢慢展开，最后是一个不可避免的幼稚可笑的结局。
7. Whenever famous actresses get together to make a 'woman's film' you can bet on an overload of sentimental mush.
   无论什么时候，只要知名女演员们聚在一起，去演绎一部“女性题材电影”，那毫无疑问里面准是一堆多愁善感的故事。
8. Don't go getting all mushy and sentimental.
   不要变得过于多愁善感。
9. His father took him on a sentimental pilgrimage to Ireland.
   他爸爸带他踏上了去爱尔兰的情感之旅。
10. Beneath the sentimental psychobabble, there's a likeable movie trying to get out.
    在多愁善感的心理学呓语之下，一部本有可能受到喜爱的电影挣扎欲出。
11. I'm trying not to be sentimental about the past
    我努力不让自己表现得感怀过去。
12. It's a very sentimental play.
    这是一部十分煽情的戏。
13. Our paintings and photographs are of sentimental value only
    我们的画作和照片仅有纪念价值。
14. Perhaps he has returned for sentimental reasons.
    也许他是出于情感上的原因才回来的。
15. Careful, there I go again, getting sentimental.
    看看，我又来了，又开始多愁善感了。
16. Many of the things are of great sentimental value and it is going to be a wrench parting with them
    其中很多东西都具有重要的情感价值，令人难以割舍。
17. This song is too sentimental.
    这支歌软绵绵的。
18. She's a sentimental woman who believes marriage comes by destiny.
    她是多愁善感一类的人，她相信姻缘命中注定。
19. As my spirit wanders to the ancient kingdom,| you may well laugh at me for being so sentimental,| and growing grey hair so soon!
    故国神游，多情应笑我，早生华发。（苏轼《念奴娇·赤壁怀古》）
20. The story was dramatic without being in the least sentimental.
    这个故事富有戏剧性而又不矫揉造作。
21. I am the kind of person who is sentimental.
    我是种多愁善感的人。
22. The story is too sentimental.
    这个故事太伤感了。
23. I'm a sentimental failure.
    我是个感情脆弱的失败者。
24. I love the sentimental ending of this movie.
    我喜欢这个电影充满柔情的结尾。
25. He wrote a sentimental verse to his lover.
    他给他的爱人写了一首感伤的诗歌。
26. She's too sentimental about her cat.
    她对她的猫未免太牵肠挂肚了。
27. This is me: a sentimental man.
    这就是我：一个感伤的人。
28. It's got sentimental value. I want it back.
    对我有感情价值，我要拿回来。
29. I thought the movie was spoiled by its sentimental ending.
    我认为感伤的结尾损害了这部影片。
30. What if my heart was stung, get out of my mind this, let me sentimental old place.
    我的心仿佛被什么刺痛了，赶紧离开了这个令我难忘，让我感伤的老地方。

adj

1. effusively or insincerely emotional
   1. a bathetic novel
   2. maudlin expressions of sympathy
   3. mushy effusiveness
   4. a schmaltzy song
   5. sentimental soap operas
   6. slushy poetry

   Synonym:    batheticdrippyhokeymaudlinmawkishkitschymushyschmaltzyschmalzysoppysoupyslushy

2. given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality