[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]感伤的；多情的；多愁善感的 Someone or something that is sentimental feels or shows pity or love, sometimes to an extent that is considered exaggerated and foolish.
I'm trying not to be sentimental about the past...
我努力不让自己表现得感怀过去。
It's a very sentimental play.
这是一部十分煽情的戏。
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Childhood had less freedom and joy than we sentimentally attribute to it.
童年并非像我们现在一厢情愿所认为的那样自在快乐。
sentimentality
In this book there is no sentimentality.
这本书里没有故作感伤的情绪。
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[ADJ 形容词]情感(上)的；(尤指)(出于)怀旧的Sentimental means relating to or involving feelings such as pity or love, especially for things in the past.
[usu ADJ n]
Our paintings and photographs are of sentimental value only...
我们的画作和照片仅有纪念价值。
Perhaps he has returned for sentimental reasons.
也许他是出于情感上的原因才回来的。
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sen·ti·men·tal/ˌsentɪˈmentl; NAmEˌsentɪˈmentl/adjective1connected with your emotions, rather than reason 情感的（而非理性的）◆She kept the letters for sentimental reasons.她把那些信留作纪念。◆The ring wasn't worth very much but it had great sentimental value.那枚戒指值不了几个钱，但却极有情感价值。2( often disapproving) producing emotions such as pity, romantic love or sadness, which may be too strong or not appropriate; feeling these emotions too much （失之过度或不恰当地）伤感的，充满柔情的；多愁善感的◆a slushy, sentimental love story庸俗缠绵的言情小说◆He's not the sort of man who gets sentimental aboutold friendships. 他不是那种为旧日的友情唏嘘感伤的人。OPP
1someone who is sentimental is easily affected by emotions such as love, sympathy, sadness etc, often in a way that seems silly to other people: She said a sentimental goodbye.sentimental about People can be very sentimental about animals.2based on or relating to your feelings rather than on practical reasons: He wasn’t the sort of person who kept things for sentimental reasons. a sentimental journey to the place of his birth The rings that were stolen were of great sentimental value (=important because of your feelings or memories relating to them).3a story, film, book etc that is sentimental deals with emotions such as love and sadness, sometimes in a way that seems silly and insincere: a sentimental story set in Russia—sentimentally adverb
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