矫揉造作

His affectations annoyed me.

他的矫揉造作使我恼怒。

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

不要因他的矫揉造作嘲笑年轻人。

Some people criticised his characters as too genteel, at a time when Dickens in particular was writing about poverty and the grim realities of life in the backstreets of Victorian London

有人批评他的人物都是矫揉造作，附庸风雅之辈，而在同一时期，狄更斯却专门以维多利亚时代伦敦陋街僻巷中平民百姓生活的贫困与严酷的现实为写作题材。

The melancholic motif of the tilted head, which came to stereotypically identify Modigliani's style, most notably with the Lunia Czechowska series, confers a sense of cloying sweetness to this elegant figure while the Mannerism is neutralized by the austerity of the simple black dress à la Manet.

此风格尤其反映在他所绘画的卢尼亚贾卓斯卡画像系列中，当中莫迪里亚尼赋予这位优雅的主角一种娇贵甜美的感觉，更以马内式简洁朴素的黑色裙子中和了主角的矫揉造作。

He had a human performer ask, in a sort of theatrical way, for a dry martini. He took those gestures -- the raised eyebrow, the smirk on the lips, the lilt of the head -- to control the face of a cat.

他先让一个演员用一种矫揉造作的方式要一杯干马蒂尼，然后用这些姿态——扬起的眉毛、唇边的傻笑、头部的轻摇——控制一只猫的脸部活动。

With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene.

随着死亡的吉他手Schuldiner接受主唱的职务，乐队在现实中树立了重要的影响。

But he could still end up breakfasting on Swiss-government issue muesli because all six are accused of nicking around 45 million pounds they should have paid to FIFA.

不过他最后仍有可能沦为瑞士政府&议事餐桌&上的一道早餐，因为这所有六个人都被指控把本应支付给国际足联的大约4500万英镑骗了个精光。