1749, "pertaining to or characterized by sentiment," from sentiment + -al (1). At first without pejorative connotations; meaning "having too much sentiment, apt to be swayed by prejudice" had emerged by 1793 (implied in sentimentalist). Related: Sentimentally.
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1. Beneath the sentimental psychobabble, there's a likeable movie trying to get out.
在多愁善感的心理學囈語之下，一部本有可能受到喜愛的電影掙扎欲出。
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2. I'm trying not to be sentimental about the past.
我努力不讓自己表現得感懷過去。
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3. It just lodged in my mind as a very sentimental song.
這首歌令人感懷不已，我已牢牢記住。
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4. Our paintings and photographs are of sentimental value only.
我們的畫作和照片僅有紀念價值。
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5. His father took him on a sentimental pilgrimage to Ireland.