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
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矫揉造作的;假惺惺感伤的
excessively sentimental in an insincere or affected way
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。
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。
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。
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。
Not this
This dish is mawkish.
Use this
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。
Not this
The movie had too much mawkish.
Use this
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。
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