mawkish
音標(biāo)發(fā)音
- 英式音標(biāo) [?m??.k??]
- 美式音標(biāo) [?mɑ?.k??]
- 國際音標(biāo) ['m?:ki?]
- 英式發(fā)音
- 美式發(fā)音
基本解釋
- adj. 令人作嘔的，令人厭惡的；自作多情的；淡而無味的
詞根記憶
- maw(看作raw，生的，不成熟的) + kish→吃生肉很令人作惡→令人作惡的
英漢例句
- But, as a former war reporter myself, I recoil from the mawkish sentimentality with which we enshrine our casualties.
然而作為一個前戰(zhàn)地記者，我厭惡以這種病態(tài)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，時而陰森可怖，《可愛的骨頭》在蘇西夢幻般的樂園與現(xiàn)實中人們的痛苦之間不斷轉(zhuǎn)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(fā)布會上并沒有任何多愁善感或者死寂氣氛-取而代之的對富于想象力的個體的歡呼。 - 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(quán)威例句
詞組短語
- mawkish h 令人作嘔的
- mawkish sentiment 傷感的情緒
- mawkish response 情感反應(yīng)
- 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.