affectation

1 Her affectations make you sick.

她那装模作样劲儿真令人作呕.

2 Is it a mood, an emotion, an affliction, a form of social protection, a gateway to the essence of the self, the human condition, or a modern affectation?

3 He has no perceptible charisma, while his pseudo-scientific methods and historical affectations are absurd in the extreme.

4 In the late seventies, he gave poetry up, saying that it now seemed to him an affectation, like wearing a necktie.

5 I wore sunglasses all the time and people thought it was an affectation.

我一直戴着墨镜，别人认为是做作。

6 Enables the building to achieve nobly elegant, gives up affectation.

使建筑物达到高贵典雅, 返璞归真.

7 Despite the white makeup, wig and Elizabethan ruff, he doesn’t camp up the female role with a falsetto voice or drag-queen affectations.

8 This does not mean a nasal affectation, along the lines of that corny old nerdy-voice stereotype that mid-level black comedians do.

9 Never cloying, she comes at her role simply and without affectation, and suggests that happiness is less birthright than stubborn spiritual discipline.

10 His normal intolerance of affectation did not extend to the elegant symmetry of Mess Night.

11 Kay has no affectation at all.

凯一点也不做作。

12 If Dolores knew, she would crawl up in her blanket of affectations and die circumspectly.

13 In these latter days, it’s not possible to articulate something profound about society’s fragility by striking a series of eccentric affectations.

14 Walking, standing — everyday movements performed by dancers without affectation to create something new, a kind of pedestrian classicism.

15 But in the ensuing years, it’s become less a resonant worldview than an empty affectation, a way of signaling sophistication and with-it disillusionment — and little else.

16 But she’s also marvelous at making — or perhaps letting — her dancers look their best, distinctive without affectation.

17 I do not think this is her affectation, because I have the same sensitivity.

我并不认为这是她做作，因为我也同样敏感。

18 Slyly, she begins by underplaying the grand lady affectations; she’s a Dolly who might really have lived on the Lower East Side, who still has an accent and a coarse, hoydenish swagger.

19 Unlike natural fears, these unfathomable symptoms — sometimes relatively harmless affectations, sometimes devastatingly distressing and impairing — cannot be explained by consideration of their context or by understandable reactions to memories of past dangers.

20 The expert comic actor Carson Elrod fleshes out Dapper with a veritable arsenal of mimicry and affectations that make his every appearance a delight.

1 虚饰

flamboyant flash gloss varnish veneer pageant frill gild affected painted glossy showy tinsel ostentatious tinselly paint pretense pomp pretension puppetry vainglory gilding frippery veneering frounce show fastuous colored vain flashy pretentious chrome-plated meretricious put-on pretty-pretty stiltedly showily dash gilt pageantry ostentation

2 做作

camp artificial affected theatrical unnatural overblown histrionic stagy flatulent mincing la-di-da pretence flatulence play-act staged stilted air chew the scenery strained contrived factitious apish tinhorn minikin Godwottery dramatics pose attitudinize overstudy plastic cheesy hammy plummy highfalutin fake precious pretentious orotund camp up cute ham airy feign hollywood hokey niminy-piminy stilty art conceit pretension

3 故弄玄虚

mysterious

4 装腔作势

pound-noteish grand affected perk airy perky cutesy Hollywood conceited histrionic fay stagy gushy posey greenery-yallery act pose lug gyver attitudinise assume dramatize emote playact la-di-da attitudinize affect put on dog put it on far back

5 矫饰

affected pretentious mannered frilly rosewater mincing chichi minikin hypocrisy frill pretension theatricality pretentiousness frippery

6 矫揉造作

contrived mannered cutesy twee histrionic mincing air slush contrivance slushy artificial affected airs and graces too-too sophisticated baroque ornate johnsonian minikin pose la-di-da preciosity prunes and prisms

7 伪装

mask camouflage guise sham masquerade fake simulate act a part

8 装假

gammon put on an act

9 装模作样

portentous mincing highfalutin la-di-da fudge charade camp it up studied grandly posture lardy-dardy affected chichi art front signify swagger

10 假装

false mock mimic sham assumed phoney act assumption simulation masquerade pretence make-believe play-acting play affect assume fake pretend disguise feign dissemble dissimulate play-act in disguise artificial affected simulated pretended pose come simulate counterfeit fictitious seeming ostensible fictive hokey colourable ACT mask pretension cut profess let on make believe professed put-on come the make like put on pass off as pass yourself off as make as if to do make believe that ostensibly show bluff assumptive feignedly cover shit semblance puppetry personation feint playact personate make-up hoked-up scenic feigned pretending colorable simulative professedly shape acting bonnet pretense boogerboo daub wear fox make as if put on an act make on

11 追求

pursuant search advance chase quest hunting inquiry pursuit affection searching gape pursuance blitzkrieg after seek dangle hanker follow court push pursue ensue woo set cap at

12 炫耀

flash fine brilliant flashy conspicuous pretentious flamboyant swanky glitzy effusive ritzy epideictic display blaze glitter pageant pomp pretence panache ostentation éclat coruscate flaunt parade flourish glare cut a wide swath fastuous blatant glaring grandstand showy ostentatious hotshot swank splashy flaunty splurge gaudery fofarraw spread demonstration splash strut fanfare brandish show-off pomposity frippery ritz foofaraw frounce tigerism show peacock gam showboat sport affect flare plume cut a swath strut stuff

13 虚假

shoddy deceitful fallacious Punic factitious Barmecidal lie leasing untruth

14 喜爱

fond shine fancy affection inclination druthers incline attach favor groove