nostalgia

/nɒˈstældʒə/ (bre, ipa) · /nəˈstældʒə/ (ame, ipa) · /nä-ˈstal-jə nə- also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl-/ (ame, mw)

nostalgia — 名詞

1. a bittersweet emotion you feel when you remember an earlier time in your life —

1.名詞B2
釋義

懷舊；鄉愁

想起過往時帶點甜蜜又略感傷的情緒

a bittersweet emotion you feel when you remember an earlier time in your life — usually warm and happy, but with a touch of sadness because that time is gone.

例句

Cole felt a wave of nostalgia when he found his old school photos in the attic.

Cole 在閣樓裡找到舊時的學校照片，一陣懷舊之情湧上心頭。

collocation: a wave of nostalgia

Many viewers watch the show out of nostalgia for the 1990s television they grew up with.

許多觀眾看這部劇是出於對自己從小看到大的九零年代電視節目的懷舊情懷。

pattern: nostalgia for + time period

同義詞
  • wistfulness

    more literary; emphasises the gentle sadness without the warmth

  • homesickness

    specifically missing a place (home) rather than a past time

  • yearning

    stronger desire to return; less tied to memory

  • sentimentality

    often negative — implies excessive or unearned emotion about the past

文法句型

nostalgia for + noun

用法筆記

Uncountable in almost every use; takes the preposition 'for' to name what is missed. Often appears in collocations 'a wave of / a sense of / a feeling of nostalgia'.

常見錯誤

❌I have many nostalgias about my childhood.
✅I have a lot of nostalgia for my childhood.
💡nostalgia is uncountable, so no plural and use 'a lot of' rather than 'many'.
❌She feels nostalgia about her hometown.
✅She feels nostalgia for her hometown.
💡the standard preposition is 'for', not 'about'.