sentimentality

noun

1. 感伤情调；多愁善感
   the quality of being too sentimental

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. The director discovered a rich vein of sentimentality
   导演发现了一个丰富的情感源泉。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. But aren't those feelings really sentimentality, emotional self-indulgence?
   但是那些感情难道不就是多愁善感和情绪化的自我放纵吗？
6. I don't know whether I more loathe the brutality of you Germans or despise your sentimentality.
   我真不知道是更厌恶你们德国人的野蛮兽性还是瞧不起你们的自作多情。
7. 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）。
8. An intolerable degree of sentimentality.
   感伤到了无法忍受的程度。
9. 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！
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. You like looking at that thick clouds, to indicate yourself sentimentality?
    你喜欢看厚厚的云朵，来证明你的多愁善感？
14. 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。
15. Her voice dripped sentimentality.
    她的声音中流露出伤感。
16. His poems breathe sentimentality.
    他的诗歌流露多愁善感的情调。
17. If time can offset sentimentality, I am willing to unlimited burning.
    如果时间能抵消感伤，我愿意无限制燃烧。
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. He did not move toward us from sentimentality.
    他向我们靠拢不是感情用事。
21. Not given to gentleness or sentimentality.
    不惯于亲切或感伤的。
22. A certain sentimentality is the common coin of political debate.
    某种程度的情感激动是政治辩论的共同特点。
23. 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。
24. 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。
25. That is part of what I mean by sentimentality.
    这就是我说的多愁善感的一部分。
26. The nurse looked at me sadly. given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality.
    护士伤感地看着我。惯于感伤的或以感情、感伤为特征。
27. 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。
28. Because of your occasional sentimentality.
    因为你偶尔的多愁善感。
29. 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。
30. 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。

noun

1. falsely emotional in a maudlin way

   Synonym:    mawkishnessdrippinessmushinesssoupinesssloppiness

2. extravagant or affected feeling or emotion