sentiment

1、senti- + -ment.

sentiment 情感，伤感，哀伤

来自拉丁语 sentire,感觉，感知，词源同 sense.-ment,名词后缀。原指客观的感觉，后词义感 情化，多用于指伤感，哀伤。

sentiment

sentiment: [17] Sentiment comes via Old French sentiment from medieval Latin sentīmentum ‘feeling’, a derivative of Latin sentīre ‘feel’ (from which English gets sensation, sense, sentence, etc). It originally meant ‘feeling’ and ‘opinion’ (the former now defunct, the latter surviving with a somewhat old-fashioned air in such expressions as ‘My sentiments exactly!’). The sense ‘(excessively) refined feeling’ did not emerge until the mid-18th century.
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sentiment (n.)

late 14c., sentement, "personal experience, one's own feeling," from Old French sentement (12c.), from Medieval Latin sentimentum "feeling, affection, opinion," from Latin sentire "to feel" (see sense (n.)).

Meaning "what one feels about something" (1630s) and modern spelling seem to be a re-introduction from French (where it was spelled sentiment by 17c.). A vogue word mid-18c. with wide application, commonly "a thought colored by or proceeding from emotion" (1762), especially as expressed in literature or art. The 17c. sense is preserved in phrases such as my sentiments exactly.

1. With the last sentiment, Arnold was in hearty agreement.

阿诺德强烈赞成最后一个观点。

2. Political life has been infected by growing nationalist sentiment.

政治生活已受到了不断高涨的民族主义情绪的影响。

3. The coronation was an occasion for extravagant myth and sentiment.

加冕典礼是极尽奢华和怀旧的仪式。

4. He's found growing sentiment for military action.

他发现支持采取军事行动的情绪日益高涨。

5. The Foreign Secretary echoed this sentiment.

外交大臣附和了这一看法。

【sentiment, sensation, feeling, passion, emotion】
这组词都有“感情”的意思，其区别是：
sentiment: n.思想感情，情绪，感情色彩，指由于某种思想唤起的感情，强调主观作用，有时候也带有理智成分。
• When our grandmother died, we remembered her life with strong sentiment. 当祖母逝世时，我们深深地怀念她的一生。
sensation: n.指人体感官受到外部刺激时产生的感觉，知觉。
• When she watched the film, she had the sensation that she was in a moving car. 她看电影时，感觉自己正坐在一辆开动的汽车上。
feeling: n.指一般的情绪、感觉，它一般不反映感情的本质和强度。
passion: n.激情，热情，欲望，极度的仇恨，指强烈的爱好、愤怒或情欲。
• He spoke with passion about the love of freedom. 他满腔热情地谈论着对自由的热爱。
emotion: n.情感，感情，指喜怒哀乐等较激动的情绪，表示某物引起的激动。
• He felt mixed emotions when he thought of her. 当他想起她时便产生一种复杂的感情。

【sentiment, affection, feeling, passion, emotion】
这组词都有“感情”的意思，其区别是：
sentiment: 一般指由一种思想激起的感情，含较大的理智因素。
affection: 指对人的爱慕或深厚、温柔的感情。
feeling: 普通用词，含义广。多指具体的或内心的感受，或表露出来的强烈情感。
passion: 指极强烈的感情、尤指愤怒、爱好等。也常指两性间的爱情。
emotion: 普通用词，词义中性。泛指因外界刺激而引起思想情感从细微变化到最强烈的发作。

【sentiment, idea, opinion, view】
这组词都有“意见，看法，见解”的意思，其区别是：
sentiment: 着重指基于情感而非推理所得出的，已经固定了的看法，常用复数形式。
idea: 普通用词，通常指凭感觉和想象所形成的看法或意见。
opinion: 普通用词，使用广泛。多指初步的或缺证据支持因而不十分肯定的意见或看法。
view: 侧重指个人对较广泛或重大问题所持的看法，常用复数形式。