sentimentalize

vt. 使感伤；为…而伤感

vi. 感伤；流于感伤

中文词源

sentimentalize 感情化，情绪化

sentimental,伤感的，多愁善感的，-ize,使。

sentimentalize (v.): 1764, intransitive, "indulge in sentiments," from sentimental + -ize. Meaning "to make sentimental" (transitive) is from 1813. Related: Sentimentalized; sentimentalizing.
Think on these things, and let S______ go to Lincoln sessions by himself, and talk classically with country justices. In the meantime we will philosophize and sentimentalize;--the last word is a bright invention of the moment in which it was written, for yours or Dr. Johnson's service .... [Laurence Sterne, letter to William Combe, Esq., dated Aug. 5, 1764, published 1787]

1. He seems either to fear women or to sentimentalize them.: 他似乎要么怕女人要么就对她们怀有浪漫想法。

2. Jackie was careful not to sentimentalize country life.: 杰基很注意，没有过分渲染乡村生活。

3. He's the kind of filmmaker who doesn't hesitate to over-sentimentalize.: 他是那种煽起情来不遗余力的电影制作人。