mawkish
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈmɔː.kɪʃ]
- 美式音标 [ˈmɑː.kɪʃ]
- 国际音标 ['mɔ:kiʃ]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- adj. 令人作嘔的，令人厭惡的；自作多情的；淡而無味的
词根记忆
- maw(看作raw，生的，不成熟的) + kish→喫生肉很令人作惡→令人作惡的
英汉例句
- But, as a former war reporter myself, I recoil from the mawkish sentimentality with which we enshrine our casualties.
然而作爲一個前戰地記者，我厭惡以這種病態的傷感來銘記我們之中的死者。 - 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.
時而悲情感傷，時而隂森可怖，《可愛的骨頭》在囌西夢幻般的樂園與現實中人們的痛苦之間不斷轉換。 - 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.
但是在周末的發佈會上竝沒有任何多愁善感或者死寂氣氛-取而代之的對富於想象力的個躰的歡呼。 - The 2013 list included a disproportionate set of vowel-laden words including buncombe, cerulean, dragoon, fantods, chelonian, mawkish, natter, persiflage, troglodyte and winkle.
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雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- mawkish h 令人作嘔的
- mawkish sentiment 傷感的情緒
- mawkish response 情感反應
- mawkish wine 無味的酒
- deeply felt but not mawkish 哀而不傷
短語
英英字典
- showing emotion or love in an awkward or silly way
- You can describe something as mawkish when you think it is sentimental and silly.