affectation

Expression of the stage of life can be a little more than an exaggeration, but not too much, gives a sense of affectation.

台上的表情可以比生活中稍为夸张，但不宜过分，给人以做作之感。

A sort of affectation prevents some Christians from seeking religion, as if its sphere lay among the commonplacesof daily life.

有一些基督徒矫揉造作，不能把信仰的范畴放到日常生活里面去。

She did not know how to answer her mother's shrill, meaningless questions, put with the furious affectation of maternal concern.

她不知怎样回答母亲带着一种极为虚假的母爱向她提出的那些哀哀切切、一点意思也没有的问题。

But any one can see that this is a mere form, of which the affectation grows wearisome as the work advances.

人们明白这只不过是一种形式，随着思想的进步这种做作的行为很快就会变得索然无味。

Business society does not seems as brilliant as it shows. You can't be a successful business man without affectation and lies.

商业社会并不像它所表现出来的那样灿烂辉煌。如果想要成为一个好的商人，就无法脱离做作和谎言。

i expect she ll have to be pushed , said clifford at last , with an affectation of sangfroid.

“我想是要推一推了。”最后克利福假作镇静地说。

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is. seasickness: a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

对自尊自大与装模作样的最佳应急疗法就是晕船：要呕吐的人是决不摆架子的。

He made an affectation of indifference.

他装出无动于衷的样子。

Superfluous compliments and all affectation of ceremonies are to be avoided, yet where due they are not to be neglected.

在社交礼仪中，要避免虚情假意和过度恭维。但在有必要的场合，也不能对此完全忽略。

camp: an affectation or appreciation of manners and tastes commonly thought to be artificial, vulgar, or banal .

下流，庸俗，做作：行为或情趣上的矫揉造作，通常被认为是不自然的、粗俗的或平庸的。

All the affectation of interest she had assumed till now vanished.

原先她脸上假装出来的兴致已经消失了。

He only used his personal dishes, an affectation the captain called it, but part of the ritualized necessities that kept him going.

他只用自己个人的盘碟，船长称其为装模作样，但某种仪式性的要求迫使他保持这种习惯。

Personal letters written in a professional capacity today have adapted this affectation.

今天，涉及职业能力的私人信件采纳了这种习惯。

But all of these things should be observed without affectation.

但所有这些事情都应当毫不矫揉造作地去做。

It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it.

事实上，这种装模作样的神态在商人中间并不普遍，用不着多费唇吞去劝阻他们。

However, affectation is viewed as handsome when it naturally appears without making any restrained cuing.

然而，在实际上，只要做作得自然，不露拘束的痕迹，往往也就被当成了潇洒。

Speak both in the senate and to every man, whoever he may be, appropriately, not with any affectation: use plain discourse.

不仅在元老院中，而且对任何一个人都要恰当地说话，不矫揉造作，言词简明扼要。

The man seemed to avoid them rather than to seek them, but this without any affectation.

那个人好象是要避开那些行人，而不是想接近他们，但也没有露出故意回避的样子。

I dislike the affectation of her action.

我不喜欢她做作的行为。

Freedom from affectation or embarrassment; composure.

泰然自若，沉着不受影响或不尴尬；冷静