mawkish
mawkish 英 [ˈmɔ:kɪʃ] 美 [ˈmɔkɪʃ]
adj. 令人作呕的，令人厌恶的；自作多情的；淡而无味的
- Mawkish means excessively sentimental or so sappy it's sickening. Which is how you'd describe two lovebirds gushing over each other or your grandma’s cooing, cheek pinches, and sloppy-lipstick kisses.
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- adj. 令人作呕的，令人厌恶的；自作多情的；淡而无味的
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1. 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。
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2. Alternately mawkish and grisly, The Lovely Bones bounces back and forth between Susie’s dreamily surreal limbo and the mundane miseries of life on earth.
时而悲情感伤，时而阴森可怖，《可爱的骨头》在苏西梦幻般的乐园与现实中人们的痛苦之间不断转换。
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3. Yet there was nothing mawkish or funereal about the atmosphere at the weekend shows — rather they were a celebration of the individuality that produces imaginative talent.
但是在周末的发布会上并没有任何多愁善感或者死寂气氛-取而代之的对富于想象力的个体的欢呼。
- mawkish (adj.) 1660s, "sickly, nauseated," from Middle English mawke "maggot" (see maggot). Sense of "sickly sentimental" is first recorded 1702. Related: Mawkishly; mawkishness.
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