| 单词 | sob story |
| 释义 | > as lemmassob story sob story n. a report or article designed to make a sentimental appeal to the emotions; transferred a narrative of one's misfortunes, a ‘hard luck story’. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [noun] > that which appeals to sentimentality sob story1913 tear-jerker1921 society > communication > journalism > journal > matter of or for journals > [noun] > story > types of sob story1913 wire story1943 cover story1945 MEGO1977 spoiler1985 1913 Writer's Mag. Nov. 174/2 I wrote the ‘sob’ story of ‘the City that Turned Down Santa’. 1920 C. Sandburg Smoke & Steel 28 How easy to make a sob story over who she was once and who she is now. 1923 C. E. Montague Fiery Particles 177 Thomas Curtayne, the greatest of Irishmen, was to be buried in homely state... Here was a sob-story, manifestly. 1949 Los Angeles Times 15 June ii. 4/4 How anyone could heed such a sob story is beyond me. 1979 N. Hynd False Flags xxi. 188 ‘Sometimes a man tries to do too much.’.. ‘I'm familiar with the old sob story.’ 1982 A. Mather Impetuous Masquerade xi. 170 And give him some sob-story? < as lemmas |
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