形容词无味的; 多愁善感的，易伤感的
1. 令人作呕的：maw 嗉囊 | mawkish 令人作呕的 | max. 极大值
2. 让人厌恶的,多愁善感：reprehensible 斥责 | mawkish 让人厌恶的,多愁善感 | exempt 免除
3. 自作多情的,令人作呕的：maverick 独行者,想法与众不同的人 | mawkish 自作多情的,令人作呕的 | maxim 格言,普遍真理
4. 酸味道的;风味不良的;乏味的：maw worm 胃肠道寄生虫 | mawkish 酸味道的;风味不良的;乏味的 | mawseed 罂粟子
1. Given to or displaying mawkish affection or amorousness.
给予或者显示出令人作呕的感情或者''。'钟爱'。
2. It could have been mawkish, and pretty Amy does look in congruous in the TV film next to the stories and pictures of war and death
这是部本来很容易让人伤感的专题片，但片中出现在战争与死亡的故事和图像旁边的美丽的埃米看上去确实有点不协调。
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3. You'd hear of odd things if I lived alone with that mawkish, waxen face: the most ordinary would be painting on its white the colours of the rainbow, and turning the blue eyes black, every day or two: they detestably resemble Linton's.
如果我跟那个让人恶心的蜡脸同居，你会听到古怪事情的。最平常的是每隔一两天那张白脸上就要画上彩虹的颜色，而且蓝眼睛就要变成黑的，那双眼睛跟林惇的眼睛相像得令人讨厌。
4. Because the word was brought into use as a response to a large amount of art in the 19th century where the aesthetic of art work was confused with a sense of exaggerated sentimentality or melodrama, kitsch most closely associated with art that is sentimental, mawkish, or maudlin; however, it can be used to refer to any type of art which is deficient for similar reasons - whether it tries to appear sentimental, cool, glamorous, theatrical, or creative, kitsch is said to be a gesture imitative of the superficial appearances of art.
Kitsch这个词最早出现在19世纪，当时出现了大量混淆美学概念，矫揉造作而且过分煽情的艺术作品和情节剧，作为回应，这个词被创造了出来。Kitsch最适合用来形容那些故意表现得情感脆弱的艺术作品，当然也可以用来形容有类似缺陷的作品，故作深沉、装酷、刻意的戏剧化等等。它是对真正艺术的粗浅模仿。
5. And tenderness, too—but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?
我要的还有温情，而温情不就是生命中难求的温柔多情么？
6. And tenderness, too — but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?
还有亲切感，但这脆弱多情之物真的是生活所亟需的么？
7. Ironically, it is these mawkish, calcified heads that have tarnished the sculptor's reputation.
具有讽刺意味的，正是这些婆婆妈妈人，玷污了雕塑家的声誉。
8. A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable mawkish ending.
一段灰暗而感伤的情节慢慢展开，最后是一个不可避免的幼稚可笑的结局。
9. His farewell was much better than the usual mawkish television send-off: He mixed favorite segments like his Top 10 list with clips of classic skits and a few restrained fillips of sincerity and humility.
他的告别节目比通常自作多情的电视送别好得多：他在节目中穿插了最受喜爱的部分，例如他的10大名单，包括经典小品片段，以及几个有诚意、谦逊的、有克制的时刻。
10. And tenderness, too & but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?
我还渴望柔情&但在生活中渴望柔情，这是否显得多愁善感呢？
11. The officer workers hurried along to work, motorbuses were full of sweaty people and the mawkish smell.
上班族们赶着要去上班了，公共汽车上充斥着满身是汗的人们和恐怖的（汗）气味。
12. In this commencement season, there is inevitably much reflection on the nature of those hopes and how to fulfill them. These tend toward the mawkish.
在这样的毕业季，有很多人不免会反思这些希望的本质，考虑如何实现它们。
13. The most common writing theme in the western newspaper is obituary report which is rich in content, varied in style, and sentimental in expression but not mawkish as well. This kind of reports is in favor of the readers in the west.
西方报纸上常见的题材&讣闻，内容丰富、形式多样，哀而不伤，深受广大读者的欢迎。
1. mawkish的反义词
1. （事情）多愁善感的，可笑的
You can describe something as mawkish when you think it is sentimental and silly.
e.g. A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable mawkish ending.
一段灰暗而感伤的情节慢慢展开，最后是一个不可避免的幼稚可笑的结局。