He always becomes maudlin after he's had a few drinks.

他喝了几杯酒后总是变得多愁善感。

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Where many would be put off by a more brazenly maudlin tear-jerker, this film keeps just on the right side of sentimental.

如果影片再伤感一点，再催人泪下一点，许多观众可能会因此而却步，但这部电影的泪点刚刚好。

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Filming on location in California, Lupino turns the potentially maudlin material into a searing, deep, trenchantly mature study in the dissolution of a personality.

NEWYORKER: The Young Lovers

It was her vanity that disgusted me, the way she undercut the confession with a preening, maudlin joke.

NEWYORKER: The Other Place

It all had a very ironic pop sensibility or was very maudlin.

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