sentimentalize detail变成多愁善感
sentimentalize one's college days对大学时代怀伤感
V-T/V-I(及物动词/不及物动词) If you sentimentalize something, you make it seem sentimental or think about it in a sentimental way. 使感伤; 使带有感情色彩
He seems either to fear women or to sentimentalize them.
他似乎不是怕女人就是对她们怀有浪漫想法。