a sad feeling mixed with pleasure when you think of happy times in the past 怀旧;念旧 a sense/wave/pang of nostalgia 怀旧感;一阵强烈的怀旧之情 She is filled with nostalgia for her own college days. 她对自己的大学时代充满了怀念之情。
Extra ExamplesHe thought back to his time as a student and felt no nostalgia for any of it. 他回想起学生时代,却没有怀念之情。 I remember it with great nostalgia. 我想起这件事,怀旧之情油然而生。 Nostalgia buffs gathered for the auction of wartime memorabilia. 怀旧的人聚集在战争纪念品的拍卖会上。 She felt great nostalgia for the old way of life. 她很怀念以前的生活方式。 She remembers her life as a singer with a certain wistful nostalgia. 想起自己当歌手的岁月,她有些伤感。 The college reunion was a great nostalgia trip. 大学校友聚会上弥漫着浓重的怀旧情绪。 an evening of pure nostalgia 怀旧的夜晚
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- wistful
- pure
- 80s
- …
- wave
- feel
- evoke
- indulge in
- …
- buff
- trip
- with nostalgia
- nostalgia for
- a feeling of nostalgia
- a sense of nostalgia
Word Originlate 18th cent. (in the sense ‘acute homesickness’): modern Latin (translating German Heimweh ‘homesickness’), from Greek nostos ‘return home’ + algos ‘pain’.