mawkish

释义

adj.

无病呻吟的；自作多情的；多愁善感的

网络

令人作呕的；令人厌恶的；过于感伤的

在例句中理解 5 句

1. Hirst's letters to a former girlfriend are mawkish in places, and he proves oddly unprofessional when faced with a pretty woman.

   赫斯特给前任女友的一封信充斥着令人作呕的词句，而在面对美貌女子的时候，他的表现绝不像一名训练有素的特工。

2. True, at the start of his leader's speech in Birmingham, Mr Clegg paid mawkish tribute to his party's "grace under fire" .

   确实，在伯明翰就职该党党魁时，他在讲话开篇高调颂扬了该党在“广遭责难下的优雅”。

3. It could have been mawkish , and pretty Amy does look incongruous in the TV film next to the stories and pictures of war and death.

   这是部本来很容易让人伤感的专题片，但片中出现在战争与死亡的故事和图像旁边的美丽的埃米看上去确实有点不协调。

4. But, as a former war reporter myself, I recoil from the mawkish sentimentality with which we enshrine our casualties.

   然而作为一个前战地记者，我厌恶以这种病态的伤感来铭记我们之中的死者。

5. a mawkish love story

   无病呻吟的爱情故事