maudlin
maudlin 英 [ˈmɔ:dlɪn] 美 [ˈmɔdlɪn]
adj. 感情脆弱的；容易流泪的；酒后伤感的 n. 伤感；易流泪
- You can use maudlin to describe something that brings tears to your eyes, or makes you feel very emotional. Tearjerkers like "Forrest Gump" and "Titanic" can be described as maudlin.
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- adj. 感情脆弱的；容易流泪的；酒后伤感的
- n. 伤感；易流泪
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1. I can hear all of the maudlin talk already.
我现在已经能感受到所有伤感的话语。
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2. Occasionally we mourn that lost world, but that, it seems to me, is maudlin and sentimental.
我们偶然对那个失去的天地感到悲痛，不过在我看来，那是感情脆弱多愁善感的表现。
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3. Some of Proust's work is "a maudlin false teeth gobble-gobble discharge from a colic-afflicted belly.
普鲁斯特的一些作品是“从绞痛的肚子里排出的一副伤感脆弱的假牙”；
- maudlin (adj.) c. 1600, "tearful," from Middle English fem. proper name Maudelen (early 14c.), from Magdalene (Old French Madelaine), woman's name, originally surname of Mary the repentant sinner forgiven by Jesus in Luke vii.37 (see Magdalene). In paintings, she often was shown weeping as a sign of repentance. Meaning "characterized by tearful sentimentality" is recorded by 1630s.
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