mawkish
英 ['m??k??]
美
- adj. 令人作嘔的，令人厭惡的；自作多情的；淡而無(wú)味的
GRE暢通詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
名詞:?mawkishness;
中文詞源
mawkish 無(wú)病呻吟的
來(lái)自中古英語(yǔ)mauk,蛆，蛆蟲(chóng)，縮寫(xiě)自mathek,來(lái)自Proto-Germanic*matho,蟲(chóng)，來(lái)自PIE*math,小蟲(chóng)，蟲(chóng)子，詞源同maggot,moth.字面意思即長(zhǎng)蛆的，來(lái)自古代觀念認(rèn)為人發(fā)狂或異想天開(kāi)是因?yàn)槟X子里長(zhǎng)蟲(chóng)了。因此，引申詞義無(wú)病呻吟的，易傷感的。-k,小詞后綴，同-kin,-ish,形容詞后綴。
英文詞源
- mawkish
- mawkish: [17] The underlying meaning of mawkish is ‘maggotish’. It was derived from a now obsolete word mawk, which meant literally ‘maggot’ but was used figuratively (like maggot itself) for a ‘whim’ or ‘fastidious fancy’. Hence mawkish originally meant ‘nauseated, as if repelled by something one is too fastidious to eat’. In the 18th century the notion of ‘sickness’ or ‘sickliness’ produced the present-day sense ‘over-sentimental’. Mawk itself went back to a Middle English mathek ‘maggot’ (possible source of maggot [14]), which was borrowed from Old Norse mathkr.
=> maggot - mawkish (adj.)
- 1660s, "sickly, nauseated," from Middle English mawke "maggot" (see maggot). Sense of "sickly sentimental" is first recorded 1702. Related: Mawkishly; mawkishness.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable mawkish ending.
- 一段灰暗而感傷的情節(jié)慢慢展開(kāi)，最后是一個(gè)不可避免的幼稚可笑的結(jié)局。
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 2. Such feelings infuse Ekhrajiha, which is nonetheless an odd mix of slapstick humour and mawkish sentimentality.
- 電影Ekhrajiha(無(wú)家可歸)是一部由幽默鬧劇及令人厭惡的情節(jié)組成的奇怪混合物,其中到處充斥著這種感情.
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