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单词 sentiment
释义 sen·ti·ment
\ˈsentəmənt\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: French or Medieval Latin; French sentiment from Medieval Latin sentimentum, from Latin sentire to feel, perceive + -mentum -ment — more at sense
1.
 a. : an attitude, thought, or judgment permeated or prompted by feeling : a complex of emotion and idea : predilection
  < rising sentiment for broadening the tax base — New York Times >
  < public sentiment for good roads greatly increased — American Guide Series: North Carolina >
  < his own antislavery sentiments were sincere — Helen C. Boatfield >
 b. : a specific view or notion : opinion
  < am obliged to differ from nearly every sentiment expressed — Gilbert Parker >
  < share their sentiments … on school problems — Julius May >
2.
 a. : feeling, emotion
  < generated within him a sentiment of good will and cooperation — A.L.Funk >
  < stimulating to the sentiments and occasionally interesting to the mind — Virgil Thomson >
 b. : refined feeling : keen or delicate sensibility especially as expressed in a work of art or evinced in conduct
  < a strong, frank, and positive character, of keen wit and generous sentiment — E.V.Wilcox >
  < poems of sentiment and reflection — Matthew Arnold >
  < an almost religious sentiment of the dignity of art — Meyer Schapiro >
 c. : emotional idealism
  < community life in those days was a requisite of survival rather than a matter of sentiment — Dana Burnet >
  < making sentiment a substitute for action >
 d. : a romantic or nostalgic feeling verging on sentimentality
  < still keeps a bartender to preside over its ornate old bar, mostly for sentiment's sake — Green Peyton >
  < so much slush and sentiment — Jack London >
  < just the difference between passion and silly sentiment — A.T.Quiller-Couch >
3.
 a. : an emotional idea as set forth in literature or art
  < the book expresses the noblest sentiments >
 b. : the emotional significance of a passage or expression as distinguished from its verbal context
  < a diplomatic statement is a statement about which everything is true except the sentiment which prompts it — Joseph Conrad >
  < to my thinking the sentiments of the pledge, properly interpreted, are unexceptionable — W.T.Hastings >
 c. : an emotionally tinged thought or wish expressed as a maxim, axiom, or epigram
  < cards … with appropriate verses and sentimentsBks. of Jewish Interest >
  < I'll give you a sentiment; here's Success to usury — R.B.Sheridan >
Synonyms: see feeling, opinion
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