affectation.
影响,牵挂,牵制,牵动人心
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n.noun · 名词
- 1.
- ›an effort to appear to have a quality not really or fully possessed; the pretense of actual possession: an affectation of interest in art; affectation of great wealth.
- ›conspicuous artificiality of manner or appearance; effort to attract notice by pretense, assumption, or any assumed peculiarity.
- ›a trait, action, or expression characterized by such artificiality: a man of a thousand affectations.
- ›Obsolete. strenuous pursuit, desire, or aspiration.affection; fondness: his affectation of literature.
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Examples
My growing affectation for him aside, Ethan Winters isn’t likely to enter the pantheon of great video game characters.
It is the sort of affectation a bad man might pick up after too many viewings of “The Shining.”
Cringe is only possible in a cultural and political moment like ours, when we have so effectively surrounded ourselves with those who share our affections and affectations.
She finds your old-fashioned affectations sweet, but more than that she craves what you have, the information you have carried in your body for so many decades.
He signed off with a certain affectation, an identifiable term, so I'm not using it here.
What is a distinctive habit or affectation related to the writing process?
What is a distinctive habit or affectation of yours related to writing?
Fashion affectation, though, was lost on Liebling, whose military-issue slacks fit so loosely they flapped in the breeze.
Saturn in your sign will keep things real, refining elements in your make-up that smack of affectation.
And he replied shortly, and with a slight charming affectation of pride: "I did without."