mawkish

英 [ˈmɔːkɪʃ]

美 [ˈmɔːkɪʃ]

adj.  无病呻吟的; 自作多情的; 多愁善感的

GRE

BNC.35860 / COCA.36363

牛津词典

adj.

• 无病呻吟的；自作多情的；多愁善感的
  expressing or sharing emotion in a way that is exaggerated or embarrassing
  1. a mawkish poem
     无病呻吟的诗歌

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （事情）多愁善感的，可笑的
  You can describe something asmawkishwhen you think it is sentimental and silly.
  1. A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable mawkish ending.
     一段灰暗而感伤的情节慢慢展开，最后是一个不可避免的幼稚可笑的结局。

英英释义

adj

• effusively or insincerely emotional
  1. a bathetic novel
  2. maudlin expressions of sympathy
  3. mushy effusiveness
  4. a schmaltzy song
  5. sentimental soap operas
  6. slushy poetry
  Synonym:batheticdrippyhokeymaudlinkitschymushyschmaltzyschmalzysentimentalsoppysoupyslushy

双语例句

• Ironically, it is these mawkish, calcified heads that have tarnished the sculptor's reputation.
  具有讽刺意味的，正是这些婆婆妈妈人，玷污了雕塑家的声誉。
• In this commencement season, there is inevitably much reflection on the nature of those hopes and how to fulfill them. These tend toward the mawkish.
  在这样的毕业季，有很多人不免会反思这些希望的本质，考虑如何实现它们。
• And tenderness, too& but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?
  我还渴望柔情&但在生活中渴望柔情，这是否显得多愁善感呢？
• A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable mawkish ending.
  一段灰暗而感伤的情节慢慢展开，最后是一个不可避免的幼稚可笑的结局。
• His farewell was much better than the usual mawkish television send-off: He mixed favorite segments like his Top 10 list with clips of classic skits and a few restrained fillips of sincerity and humility.
  他的告别节目比通常自作多情的电视送别好得多：他在节目中穿插了最受喜爱的部分，例如他的10大名单，包括经典小品片段，以及几个有诚意、谦逊的、有克制的时刻。
• The officer workers hurried along to work, motorbuses were full of sweaty people and the mawkish smell.
  上班族们赶着要去上班了，公共汽车上充斥着满身是汗的人们和恐怖的（汗）气味。
• The most common writing theme in the western newspaper is obituary report which is rich in content, varied in style, and sentimental in expression but not mawkish as well. This kind of reports is in favor of the readers in the west.
  西方报纸上常见的题材&讣闻，内容丰富、形式多样，哀而不伤，深受广大读者的欢迎。