be mawkish
用于描述事物过度矫情或伤感。
The movie's ending was too mawkish for my taste.
这部电影的结局过于感伤，不合我的口味。
矫揉造作的；假惺惺感伤的
过于或虚假的多愁善感；表现出病态的过度情感；淡而无味的；令人作呕的；感伤的
excessively sentimental in an insincere or affected way
含贬义，指情感表达过度或虚伪，与‘淡而无味’无关。
过于或虚假的多愁善感；表现出病态的过度情感
Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
The film's mawkish ending made me feel uncomfortable.
这部电影矫揉造作的结局让我感到不舒服。
用法提示：mawkish 作定语修饰 ending，表示‘过度伤感、矫揉造作的’。
She found his mawkish apologies more annoying than sincere.
她觉得他那假惺惺的道歉令人厌烦，而非真诚。
用法提示：mawkish 作定语修饰 apologies，意为‘虚情假意的、过分感伤的’。
He turned off the TV, tired of the mawkish talk show.
他关掉了电视，厌倦了那档矫揉造作的脱口秀。
用法提示：mawkish 作定语修饰 talk show，表示‘过于煽情、假惺惺的’。
用于描述事物过度矫情或伤感。
The movie's ending was too mawkish for my taste.
这部电影的结局过于感伤，不合我的口味。
mawkish 修饰名词，强调某物带有令人不适的伤感。
She dismissed the poem as mawkish sentimentality.
她认为这首诗是矫揉造作的感伤之作。
用于表达个人对某物矫情程度的看法。
Many readers find his novels mawkish and predictable.
许多读者觉得他的小说矫情且缺乏新意。
grammar · medium
易错句子This dish is mawkish.
正确表达This dish is bland.
中文释义中“淡而无味”导致误以为mawkish可描述食物，但实际上英语中mawkish仅用于情感，形容食物应使用bland或insipid。
grammar · medium
易错句子The movie had too much mawkish.
正确表达The movie had too much mawkishness.
mawkish是形容词，不可直接作名词使用；应改为名词形式mawkishness。
mawkish 侧重于虚伪或令人作呕的伤感，而 maudlin 更强调因醉酒或悲伤而流泪的脆弱伤感
mawkish 偏向于虚伪或令人作呕的情感表达，而 saccharine 则强调像糖一样过分甜腻，常形容故事或语调
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