/nɑːˈstæl.dʒə/

a feeling of sadness mixed with pleasure and affection when you think of happy times in the past

  • Some people feel nostalgia for their schooldays.
  • Hearing that song again filled him with nostalgia.
  • a wave (= sudden strong feeling) of nostalgia

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

nostalgia for the good old days
He looked back on his university days with a certain amount of nostalgia.
a wave of nostalgia for how great life was in the 1960s
对 20 世纪 60 年代美好生活的一阵强烈怀旧之情

A wave of nostalgia swept over me when I saw my childhood home.

He was filled with nostalgia for his college days.

He might be influenced by nostalgia for his happy youth…
He discerned in the novel an air of Sixties nostalgia.
他在小说里感受到一种20世纪60年代的怀旧氛围。

adjective
nostalgic memories
I feel quite nostalgic for the place where I grew up.

homesick

sad because you are away from home and you miss your family and friends 思乡的;想家的;患怀乡病的
I felt homesick for Scotland.
我思念故乡苏格兰。

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to look back nostalgically to your childhood