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sentimentality n.多愁善感；伤感 (1) 他的诗歌流露多愁善感的情调。(2) 爱情从来免不了多愁善感。(3) 她的声音中流露出伤感。(4) 这位年轻的小姐以她的易伤感而闻名全城。 When your emotions go overboard, becoming a little theatrical or false, that's sentimentality. A person's sentimentality might come in handy if a job as a greeting card writer opens up, or a role in a community theater's production of "Les Misérables." Sentimentality comes from the adjective sentimental, which is rooted in the Medieval Latin sentimentum, "feeling, affection or opinion."

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英 [ˌsentɪmen'tæləti] 美 [ˌsentɪmen'tæləti] (1) His poems breathe sentimentality.(2) Love is never quite devoid of sentimentality.(3) Her voice dripped sentimentality.(4) This young lady was known to the whole town for her sentimentality. Sentimentality is a quality of being overly, dramatically emotional — sad or loving or nostalgic. Your sentimentality on her eightieth birthday might make your down-to-earth grandmother roll her eyes.

英语单词	sentimentality
英美音标	英 [ˌsentɪmen'tæləti] 美 [ˌsentɪmen'tæləti]
中文释义	n.多愁善感；伤感
英语例句	(1) His poems breathe sentimentality. (2) Love is never quite devoid of sentimentality. (3) Her voice dripped sentimentality. (4) This young lady was known to the whole town for her sentimentality.
中文例句	(1) 他的诗歌流露多愁善感的情调。 (2) 爱情从来免不了多愁善感。 (3) 她的声音中流露出伤感。 (4) 这位年轻的小姐以她的易伤感而闻名全城。
vocabulary简明	Sentimentality is a quality of being overly, dramatically emotional — sad or loving or nostalgic. Your sentimentality on her eightieth birthday might make your down-to-earth grandmother roll her eyes.
vocabulary扩展	When your emotions go overboard, becoming a little theatrical or false, that's sentimentality. A person's sentimentality might come in handy if a job as a greeting card writer opens up, or a role in a community theater's production of "Les Misérables." Sentimentality comes from the adjective sentimental, which is rooted in the Medieval Latin sentimentum, "feeling, affection or opinion."

Sentimentality 英 ˌsentɪmen'tæləti] 美 ˌsentɪmen'tæləti N.多愁善感；伤感 Poems Breathe Love