In other words, is there some benefit to this lachrymose behavior?

换句话说，这种流泪行为有什么益处呢？

Too plangent. No, make it less lachrymose, but keep the trite death speech.

太哀。行，要写得这么催泪，但老掉牙的寻死觅活要继续。

Over the waffles next morning, Pittypat was lachrymose, Melanie was silent and Scarlett defiant.

次日早晨吃鸡蛋饼时，皮蒂帕特姑妈在心落泪，媚兰一声响，思嘉则是一副倔强屈的神态。

I suppose Catherine fulfilled her project, for the next sentence took up another subject: she waxed lachrymose.

我猜想凯瑟琳实现了她的计划，因为下一句说的是另一件事，她心起来了。

But I would not be lachrymose: I dashed off the salt drops, and busied myself with preparing breakfast.

但我会流泪：我把盐滴洒掉， 然后忙着准备早餐。

It would be fitting for a series that lives up to its name and fuels the most lachrymose among us, and that has little interest in what we expect, to do away with happy endings.

那这部剧的名字就名副其实了，它点燃了我们的情绪，按照观众所期待的方向发展剧情，放弃了幸福的结局。

The best fun was with Madame Joubert: Miss Wilson was a poor sickly thing, lachrymose and low-spirited, not worth the trouble of vanquishing, in short; and Mrs. Grey was coarse and insensible; no blow took effect on her.

好的乐趣是和儒伯特夫人在一起：威尔逊小姐是个可怜的病娇，爱流泪，情绪低落，简而言之，值得费心去打败她；格雷太太粗鲁无知。没有打击对她起作用。