given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner 说教的 he tried to encourage his men with sententious rhetoric. 他试图用说教的言词鼓励他的士兵。
派生 sententiously adverb sententiousness noun 语源
late Middle English: from Latin sententiosus, from sententia 'opinion' (see sentence). The original sense was 'full of meaning or wisdom', later becoming depreciatory