Maudlin
['mɔːdlɪn] or ['mɔdlɪn]
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Intoxicated, inebriated, fuddled, muddled, disguised, corned, tipsy, mellow, drunk, SLEWED, groggy, in liquor, HALF SEAS OVER.[2]. Silly, weak, childish.
哈蒂編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Intoxicated, temulent, sentimental, mawkish, mellow
ANT:Sensible, unromantic, unsentimental, dry, sober
校對:路易斯
解釋/意思:
adj. silly: sickly-sentimental: fuddled half-drunk: (obs.) tearful.—n. Maud′linism the tearful stage of drink.
手打:波莉
例句/造句/用法:
- A man stumbled against him as he turned away, who mumbled some maudlin apology. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- That I retired to bed in a most maudlin state of mind, and got up in a crisis of feeble infatuation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- You were maudlin, Jos. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He's a maudlin, twaddling, selfish fool, and bores everybody who comes near him about the state of his health. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- See into what wonderful maudlin refuges, featherless ostriches plunge their heads! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- No maudlin weakness on your part shall save him. 愛德格·賴斯·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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
手打:波莉