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. 令人作呕的，令人厌恶的；自作多情的；淡而无味的
词根记忆
- maw(看作raw，生的，不成熟的) + kish→吃生肉很令人作恶→令人作恶的
同根派生
- n性质的同根词
- mawkishness：伤感；心情不佳。
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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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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双语例句
权威例句
词组短语
- mawkish h 令人作呕的
- mawkish sentiment 伤感的情绪
- mawkish response 情感反应
- mawkish wine 无味的酒
- deeply felt but not mawkish 哀而不伤
短语
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.