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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 maud·lin /ˈmɔdlən/
 (a.)容易流淚的,感傷的,醉後好哭的易流淚

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Maud·lin a.
 1. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly. “Maudlin eyes.” --Dryden. “Maudlin eloquence.” --Roscommon. “A maudlin poetess.” --Pope. “Maudlin crowd.” --Southey.
 2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
    Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt.   --Byron.
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Maud·lin, Maude·line n. Bot. An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 maudlin
      adj : effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
            "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness";
            "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
            poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, mawkish,
             mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy]