Maudlin
['mɔːdlɪn] or ['mɔdlɪn]
解释:
(a.) Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.
(a.) Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
(n.) Alt. of Maudeline
克莱儿整理
同义词及近义词:
a. [1]. Intoxicated, inebriated, fuddled, muddled, disguised, corned, tipsy, mellow, drunk, SLEWED, groggy, in liquor, HALF SEAS OVER.[2]. Silly, weak, childish.
哈蒂编辑
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Intoxicated, temulent, sentimental, mawkish, mellow
ANT:Sensible, unromantic, unsentimental, dry, sober
校对:路易斯
解释:
adj. silly: sickly-sentimental: fuddled half-drunk: (obs.) tearful.—n. Maud′linism the tearful stage of drink.
手打:波莉
例句:
- A man stumbled against him as he turned away, who mumbled some maudlin apology. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- That I retired to bed in a most maudlin state of mind, and got up in a crisis of feeble infatuation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- You were maudlin, Jos. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- He's a maudlin, twaddling, selfish fool, and bores everybody who comes near him about the state of his health. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- See into what wonderful maudlin refuges, featherless ostriches plunge their heads! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- No maudlin weakness on your part shall save him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- You don't even know that a child was born of this maudlin pair; you don't even know that. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
手打:波莉