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Maudlin Describe Mɔːdlɪn Adj.易落泪的 Movie Orphan Lost Parents

Front maudlin
Pron ['mɔːdlɪn]
Back 【maudlin】
adj.易落泪的
We saw a maudlin movie about an orphan who lost his parents in the war.
我们看了部令人落泪的电影,内容是有关一个在战争中失去父母的孤儿。
Vocab
maudlineffusively or insincerely emotional

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.

Maudlin was a form of the name Mary Magdalene, a character from the Bible represented in paintings as a weeping sinner asking forgiveness from Jesus. Maudlin is often paired with sentimental, or even schlocky, to describe cry-fests, as in "I can't watch another second of that overly-sentimental, maudlin soap opera. Turn that schlock off."

All forms of 'maudlin' will appear on average once every 5000 pages.
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