mawkish

['mɔ:kiʃ]

adj.令人作呕的,讨厌的,自作多情的

词形变化：

副词: mawkishly | 名词: mawkishness |

a.

1. 叫人作呕的; 讨厌的; 无味的

2. 过度伤感的

mawkish

词形变化：

副词: mawkishly | 名词: mawkishness |

词义辨析：

同义参见:

emotional

mawkish['mɔ:kiʃ]adj.1.■淡而无味的；令人作呕的；令人厌恶的2.■假装多情的；多愁善感的；伤感的；感情用事到幼稚可笑程度的近义词sentimental

1. sentimental in a feeble or sickly way
   伤感的，感情脆弱的
   a mawkish poem.
   感伤的诗。
   ■(archaic & dialect)having a faint sickly flavour
   (古，方)有轻微怪味的
   the mawkish smell of warm beer.
   热啤酒的怪味。
   

1. mid 17th cent. (in the sense 'inclined to sickness'): from obsolete mawk 'maggot', from Old Norse mathkr, of Germanic origin
   

mawkish

形容词 mawkish:

effusively or insincerely emotional

同义词：bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy

mawkish

■It’s certainly not as larded with designer clothes and jewelry as “Lipstick Jungle.” It’s less mawkish than “Grey’s Anatomy” but not as farcical as “Desperate Housewives.

一个多礼拜前，看到一篇介绍BBC英剧Mistresses的文章，里面有这样一段话 Mistresses is not nearly as flippant, though it has some glints of humor.

■Marks Playhouse, in the East Village, and specialized in mawkish narratives whose sweetness was intended to soften, if not disguise, the ideology at the company’s core.

专于感伤的叙事以及甜美的风格与其说掩饰了毋宁是柔化了剧团的核心思想。

■He says: "I think at that time, one day can eat a kind of food only is mawkish really.

他说：“我当时想，一天只能吃一种食物真是令人作呕。”

■Viewers are overloaded with mawkish pictures that the curators call "Gothic gloomth", borrowing a phrase from Horace Walpole.

众多索然无味的绘画充斥着观众的视野，美术馆长们引用贺瑞斯·沃波尔的一条成语，把这些画称作“哥特式晦暗”。

■sick at heart; sentimental; corny; mawkish; weepy

伤感

■mawkish sentiment

伤感的情绪

■mawkish sentiment;

伤感的情绪;

■mawkish love story

伤感的爱情故事

■you are not alone, at least, you have my heart, my wishes....HOHO....I dont wanna be mawkish.....

呵呵。。。原来时间真的是不等人啊。。。。估计再一转眼，我就要毕业了，而朋友们也都结婚了。。。呵呵。。。。。

■I say to myself.Then without warning, mawkish sentiment looms, as if a gust of wind blows from nowhere, in which the dust swirls up, misting my heart, which brings forth dizzily ill-feeling.

我心里默默地说，然后突然又泛起些伤感的情愫，仿佛不知从哪来的一阵风，把地上的灰尘卷了起来，迷了心口，蒙蒙地有些难受。

■All of this rubbish was resurrected last week in the thousand mawkish excuses found by the media and her crooning acolytes for “giving her time” to withdraw from the race.

所有这些无用的抱怨上个周再度出现在种种能给她腾出充分时间以退出竞选的理由之中。

■mawkish wine

无味的酒

■a mawkish poem

无病呻吟的诗歌

■Mawkish sentimentality, affection, or amorousness.

痴情令人发腻的多愁善感、痴情或韵事

■Given to or displaying mawkish affection or amorousness.

给予或者显示出令人作呕的感情或者钟爱

■Given to or displaying mawkish affectionor amorousness.

给予或者显示出令人作呕的感情或者钟爱。

■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。

■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。