True, at the start of his leader's speech in Birmingham, Mr Clegg paid mawkish tribute to his party's “grace under fire”.

确实，在伯职该党党魁时，他在讲话开篇高调颂扬了该党在“广遭责难下优雅”。

It was a breakthrough moment, teaching Plummer to avoid mawkish overemoting, and he's been underplaying the hell out of every role since.

这是个突破性时刻，教会普卢默怎样避免情绪化，从那以后，他直在扮演各种各样角色。

She wasn't silly or mawkish, but she gave one the impression of a lovely purity and a strange loftiness of soul.

她既不傻也不软弱， 但给人印象是种可爱纯洁和种奇怪灵魂高尚。

His true reaction was neither fear nor sorrow—only this deep delight in being with her that colored the banality of his words and made the mawkish seem sad and the posturing seem wise.

他真正反应既不是恐惧也不是悲伤——只有和她在那种深深喜悦， 才使他平淡无奇话语显得格格不入， 让伤感人显得悲伤， 使装腔作势人显得睿智。

'Do you mean to say, ' Shubin continued passionately, 'that I am not worthy of other society, that I am her equal; that I am as vain, and silly and petty as that mawkish German girl?

舒宾热情地继续说道， “我配不上其他社会， 我与她平等； 说我和那个多愁善感德国姑娘样虚荣、愚蠢和小气？