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maudlin

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容易流泪的,感伤的,醉后好哭的易流泪

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Maudlin \Maud"lin\, Maudeline \Maude"line\, n. (Bot.)
   An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South
   European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.

Maudlin \Maud"lin\, a. [From Maudlin, a contr. of Magdalen, OE.
   Maudeleyne, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and
   red with weeping.]
   1. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears;
      excessively sentimental; weak and silly. ``Maudlin eyes.''
      --Dryden. ``Maudlin eloquence.'' --Roscommon. ``A maudlin
      poetess.'' --Pope. ``Maudlin crowd.'' --Southey.

   2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.

            Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. --Byron.

资料来源 : WordNet®

maudlin
     adj : effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
           "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness";
           "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
           poetry" [syn: {bathetic}, {drippy}, {hokey}, {mawkish},
            {mushy}, {schmaltzy}, {schmalzy}, {sentimental}, {slushy}]
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