这两个人晚年时互通信函，诉说怀旧感伤之情。In old age the two men wrote each other wistful letters.这部电影太过感伤，看着就倒胃口。The film is too cloyingly sentimental.对离异的人来说，圣诞节令人感伤。For divorced people, Christmas can be a downer....
If you tell a person to 'step on it' or 'throw on your coat,' they may take you literally, with disastrous consequences.如果你告诉一个人step on it（“加速；加快”，字面意义“踩在上面”）或者throw on your coat（“赶快穿上外套”，字面意义“扔在你的外套上...
我脚酸了,坐一会吧.My feet are tired. I am going to sit down for a while.那太好了, 我们明天就可以坐在云上, 不会脚酸了.That is too good, we will sit on the cloud tomorrow, won't the foot is acerbity....
a poem written in rhyming couplets用押韵对句写成的诗Some kinds of poems are very strict about rhyming.有些词牌对词韵的要求是相当严格的.A few lines of rhyming doggerel don't count as poetry.几行押韵的蹩脚诗算不上是诗....