单词 | sentiment |
释义 | sen·ti·ment 1. a. < 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. < am obliged to differ from nearly every sentiment expressed — Gilbert Parker > < share their sentiments … on school problems — Julius May > 2. a. < 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. < 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. < 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. < 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. < the book expresses the noblest sentiments > b. < 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. < cards … with appropriate verses and sentiments — Bks. 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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