stilted

He was too stilted , too self-opinionated. He did not talk of anything that lifted her above the common run of clothes and material success.

她发现自己在挑这个男人的毛玻他太做作，太固执己见了。他和她的谈话从未超出一般的服饰和物质成就的话题。

Having proved his point, Dr Wittlinger returned both stumped and stilted ants to the nest and gave them a few days to recover.

威特林格博士证实其猜想后，又把“截肢”蚂蚁和踩高跷蚂蚁都放回蚁巢，给它们几天时间来康复。

She will speak stilted , heavily accented English, and she will reveal nothing about who owns the company or where it is located.

她说的英语不太自然，口音很重，一般不会透露公司的主人是谁或者公司在哪里等信息。

You may enjoy Ricky's romantic style of writing but I do not quite appreciate his stilted poems .

你可能很喜欢力奇浪漫的写作风格，但我却不甚欣赏他造作的诗词。

"Formal writing" does not imply the use of pretentious language, which can be characterized as stilted or pompous or stiff.

并不意味著使用矫揉造作的用词，因为这样会让文章显得生硬、浮夸且僵化。

Stilted Building of Tujia Nationality is a gem of Chinese residence and its timberwork system is further wonderful.

土家族吊脚楼是我国民居的一块瑰宝，它的木结构体系更是巧夺天工。

After some stilted end-of-interview chit-chat, Park puts her Thatcheresque handbag over her arm and leaves.

在一些客套的采访结束语后，朴槿惠挎上她的撒切尔式手包离开了。

Nim and Ardythe had exchanged a few stilted words, but that was all.

尼姆和阿黛丝拘谨地交谈了几句，没有别的。

Laotian family rests in the shade of their stilted, thatched roof hut in the fertile lowlands of the Mekong River valley.

一个老挝家庭在茅草小屋的荫凉下休息，该小屋位于湄公河流域的肥沃低地。

Put the two together and the mixture is horrible: stilted, embarrassing and potentially calamitous.

把这两件东西放在一起，后果很可怕：虚伪、尴尬，还可能会带来祸患。

In addition to his stilted delivery, this time a subtle anti-smoking message is added by him hacking around his cigarette.

除了他的棚屋交货，这一次是一种微妙的反吸烟讯息是说他在他的黑客香烟。

Formal, stilted memos and documents are out; informal, accessible written communications are in.

正式而且生硬的备忘录、文件已经过时了，而非正式、易理解的书面交流则开始流行。

Rudd wrote the speech himself, having rejected various drafts that he found too stilted or emotional.

陆克文自己撰写了演讲稿，又摈弃了好多稿，因为觉得不是矫揉造作就是太具情绪化。

Most of my memories were of stilted meetings and uncomfortable times together.

我的大多记忆是一些让人别扭的碰面和不自在的共处时光。

It is from the side that the unique stilted action is most easily assessed.

从侧面可以很容易看到这种独特的不自然的步法。

And although he remains a stilted speaker who struggles to fire an audience's emotions, most voters take him seriously.

尽管他演讲时仍然矫揉造作，也很难点起听众的激情，大部分的选民还是很看重他的。

The stilted atmosphere would strike outsiders as disconcertingly weird, but these women are oblivious to the awkwardness.

这种拘谨的气氛对一个局外人来说很不舒服，但是这几位女士却对这种尴尬的场面毫不理会。

The letter, composed in formal but stilted English, includes numerous spelling and grammatical errors.

此信格式正式但英语呆板，其中大量的拼写及文法错误。

These squabbling Tolstoys and their stilted histrionics were conceited and exasperating.

这些斗嘴的托尔斯泰们和他们夸张的表演真令人恼火。

When they do speak, which isn't often, it is in long stilted phrases about the wisdom of the ancients.

他们很少说话，一开口就是有关古人智慧的冗长的陈腔滥调。