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be sentimental about sth
形容容易因某事动情，后接名词或动名词。
She is sentimental about her childhood memories.
她对童年回忆感到感伤。
感伤的；感情用事的
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感伤的；感情用事的
given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality; overly emotional or nostalgic
She is sentimental about her childhood memories.
她对童年回忆感到感伤。
以情感、感伤或过度情感为特征；吸引情感(尤其是温柔情感)而非理性、道德、美学品味等
Characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion; appealing to the emotions (especially tender emotions) rather than reason, morality, aesthetic taste, etc.
多愁善感的；情感脆弱的
given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality
源于情感而非逻辑推理
Derived from emotion rather than logical reason.
感情夸张的；虚伪情感的
effusively or insincerely emotional
She kept the old letters for sentimental reasons.
她出于感伤的原因保留了那些旧信。
AI contextual example
He becomes sentimental when he hears that song from his childhood.
他听到童年那首歌时会变得感伤。
AI contextual example
The movie was too sentimental for my taste.
那部电影太煽情了，不合我的口味。
AI contextual example
sentimental soap operas
煽情的肥皂剧
WordNet
形容容易因某事动情，后接名词或动名词。
She is sentimental about her childhood memories.
她对童年回忆感到感伤。
表示情绪变得感伤，常用 get 或 become。
He gets sentimental whenever he watches old movies.
他一看老电影就变得感伤。
Not this
She is sentimental for her childhood.
Use this
She is sentimental about her childhood.
介词搭配错误：表示"对……感伤"时应用 about，而不是 for。
Not this
He is a sentiment person.
Use this
He is a sentimental person.
词性混淆：sentiment 是名词，修饰名词应使用形容词 sentimental。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
情感价值
This necklace has great sentimental value because it was a gift from my grandmother.
这条项链很有情感价值，因为它是我祖母送的礼物。
感伤之旅；怀旧之旅
Returning to my hometown was a sentimental journey full of memories.
回到故乡是一次充满回忆的感伤之旅。
变得多愁善感；感伤起来
He gets sentimental whenever he talks about his childhood.
每当谈起童年，他就会变得多愁善感。
对…感伤/怀旧
She is sentimental about the old house where she grew up.
她对小时候住过的老房子很怀旧。
过于感伤的；过分多愁善感的
The movie was overly sentimental and made me cringe.
这部电影过于感伤，让我很不自在。
感情上的依恋
He still has a sentimental attachment to his first car.
他对自己的第一辆车仍有感情上的依恋。
情感价值；纪念价值
This old watch has sentimental value because it belonged to my grandfather.
这块旧表具有情感价值，因为它是我祖父的遗物。
怀旧之旅；情感之旅
They took a sentimental journey back to the town where they grew up.
他们进行了一次怀旧之旅，回到了他们长大的小镇。
情感上的最爱；受偏爱的（但不一定最优秀）
My sentimental favorite for the award is the underdog team.
获奖方面，情感上我最支持那支不被看好的队伍。
你是个多愁善感的女人，我永远不会离开你。
You are a sentimental lady, I'll never leave you alone.
你是个多愁善感的女人，我永远不会离开你。
我知道，我太感情用事了。
I know, I'm being sentimental.
我知道，我太感情用事了。
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sentimental = sent（送）+ mental（心理），送出的心理感受，即多愁善感。
语域：mixed 常见场景：文学评论、日常对话、心理描述 该词在正式与非正式语境中均较常见。在描述情感时可能带有负面色彩（如‘多愁善感’或‘感情夸张’），但也可中性使用。通常用于文学评论、日常对话或心理分析中。
All listed words share the spelling ending '-ental'. However, only 'mental', 'rental', and 'dental' have stress on the first syllable (same as 'sentimental's second syllable? Actually 'sentimental' stress varies; the given IPA lacks stress marks, so precise rhyme is uncertain. 'Parental', 'oriental', and 'fundamental' have different stress patterns, so they may not rhyme exactly. Use these for spelling pattern recognition rather than perfect rhyming.
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