An American reader of translated Chinese poems may well be taken aback, even put off, by the frequency, as well as the sentimentality of the lament for home.

美国人阅读英译的中国诗歌时，可能会对诗人对家园的反复吟叹，还有乡愁情结感到好奇，甚至心生嫌隙。

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We can learn the main imageries of the poem are flowers and dream, and the main theme is the sentimentality of an attractive concubine to come and leave promptly.

从《花非花》这首诗的语言意象及其构思特征入手，结合诗人生平作品进行研究，可以得出该诗关键意象是花和梦，主题是感伤美人如花来去匆匆。

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The director discovered a rich vein of sentimentality.

导演发现了多愁善感的丰富源泉。

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This novel--as you will soon see, Onnie Jay Holy once you get to the parts where Onnie Jay Holy begins to preach-- this novel is very much a critique of sentimentality.

这本书--你很快会看到，当你一读到,开始传道的部分-,这本书就几乎成一部对多愁善感的评论。

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Usually it's not. That was the point that discussed in my chapter comparing him to Houston's film The Dead. Houston's film is filled with sentimentality and nostalgia. Welles generally avoids that, the way James Joyce does.

通常并非如此，那正是我在比较,他的作品与休斯顿的电影《死魂灵》,的章节中所谈到的，休斯顿的电影,充满了多愁善感和怀旧情绪，而威尔斯通常,尽量避免那样做，那是詹姆斯·乔伊斯的方式。

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With a gentle touch and a lilting piano score, Kawase effortlessly avoids the sentimentality that often taints Japanese movies.

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But the sentimentality in the script oozes insincerity, like it's something that's been grudgingly inserted to please a specific demographic.

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One such film is "Colorado Territory" (1949), in which Raoul Walsh transformed his own "High Sierra" (1941), a classic portrait of an aging gangster played by Humphrey Bogart, into an elegiac western starring Joel McCrea, taking the opportunity to trim away the sentimentality of "High Sierra" and replace it with hard stoicism.

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