affectation

noun

1. 假装；做作；装模作样
   behaviour or an action that is not natural or sincere and that is often intended to impress other people
   1. His little affectations irritated her.
      他的装腔作势令她不快。
   2. Kay has no affectation at all.
      凯一点也不做作。
   3. He raised his eyebrows with an affectation of surprise (= pretending to be surprised) .
      他扬起双眉装出一副惊奇的样子。

1. N-VAR 做作；装腔作势
   If you say that someone's attitude or behaviour is an affectation, you disapprove of the fact that it is not genuine or natural, but is intended to impress other people.
   1. I wore sunglasses all the time and people thought it was an affectation...
      我成天戴着墨镜，大家都觉得我在装酷。
   2. Lawson writes so well: in plain English, without fuss or affectation.
      劳森写得很好：英文通俗易懂，朴实无华又不矫揉造作。

1. I wore sunglasses all the time and people thought it was an affectation
   我成天戴着墨镜，大家都觉得我在装酷。
2. Lawson writes so well: in plain English, without fuss or affectation.
   劳森写得很好：英文通俗易懂，朴实无华又不矫揉造作。
3. 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。
4. Ive only seen it from Americans who are trying for a British affectation.
   我很少在试图模仿英国人的美国人的邮件中看到这个。
5. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.
   矫揉造作不可避免的会暴露不能肯定自己的人。
6. Begin disliking arrogance is proud, and hate sharp-tongued person, hate affectation outfit innocent people hate those who makes me feel sick.
   开始讨厌自大骄傲的人，讨厌说话尖酸刻薄的人，讨厌做作装无辜的人，讨厌那些让我觉得恶心的人。
7. A man of affectation is not amiable though his face teems with smile.
   真正亲爱的人，不笑也使人觉得和善。
8. Kneading machine, industrial, for food I detest all affectation.
   食品揉捏机，工业用我厌恶一切矫揉造作的行为。
9. I am completely disgusted with his rude behaviour and affectation.
   我非常厌恶他的粗野和做作。
10. The amateur singer is reluctant to cheat the audience by lip-synching with a false display of affectation.
    这位业余歌手不愿意以虚情假意去假唱糊弄听众。
11. 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。
12. The man is not humble, but he puts on an affectation of humility.
    这个男人并不谦虚，却装作一副谦虚的样子。
13. Even if there is to do out of affectation.
    即使有，也是矫揉造作做出来的。
14. And also to corrupt youth by means of seditious literature and drugs, the affectation of being demure in a provocative way.
    还用带有煽动性的作品和毒品腐蚀年轻人。故意装出具有煽动性的端庄、正经的样子。
15. Her love of jazz was just an affectation.
    她对爵士乐的喜爱不过是装模作样而已。
16. Earnest affectation is anyhow better than frivolous silliness.
    认真的矫情也比轻佻的愚蠢来得好些。
17. To use them too much for ornament, is affectation;
    装饰之用过滥，显得矫揉造作；
18. She did so, at any rate, without affectation.
    她这样做至少是毫不矫揉造作。
19. The affectation of being demure in a provocative way.
    故意装出具有煽动性的端庄、正经的样子。
20. He added that while he had respect for the French habit, and that in Russia where men also kiss each other in greeting, this was not the German way and it was an affectation.
    他还说，虽然他很尊重法国人的习惯，在俄罗斯男人之间问候时也互相亲吻，但这太过矫揉造作，不是德国人该有的问候方式。
21. 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。
22. His eccentric clothes are just an affectation.
    他衣着古怪是装出来的。
23. You can't be a successful business man without affectation and lies.
    如果想要成为一个好的商人，就无法脱离做作和谎言。
24. His manner reeks of falseness and affectation.
    他的举止充满了虚伪和做作。
25. Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy, as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities which we might, with innocence and safety, be known to want.
    做作与那些我们怀着天真与安全感接受的伪造才能的艺术的虚伪有着天壤之别。
26. 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。
27. I happen to enjoy my ghetto brew affectation.
    我碰巧正沉浸在我的犹太人情感中。
28. What I advise him to do is ( to) write without affectation.
    我建议他做的就是不矫揉造作地写作。
29. I detest all affectation.
    我厌恶一切矫揉造作的行为。
30. It's an affectation picked up from some friends of mine.
    这是我从我的一些朋友那儿无意中学来的一种装腔作势的样子。

noun

1. a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

   Synonym:    mannerismposeaffectedness