Tech firms are wedded to cutesy names for their employees.

科技公司喜欢给员工取矫揉造作的名字。

His voice sounded unnatural and stupid in his ears, and he stopped.

在他听来自己的声音矫揉造作又愚不可及，于是此打住。

Now bosses are everywhere, tweeting, posting and making stilted videos.

现在老板无处不在，发推文、发帖和制作矫揉造作的视。

He grinned suddenly at the touch of pretension in his remark.

” 他突然咧嘴笑， 因为他的话里有丝矫揉造作的意味。

Oh, woman, throw off your disguising cloaks of selfishness, effrontery, and affectation!

哦，女人，丢掉你那自私、厚颜无耻和矫揉造作的伪装外衣吧！

A mannerism of this kind, bad in speech, is even worse in writing.

这种矫揉造作的行为，在言语中是不好的，在写作中更糟糕了。

Julien realised that the affectation of diplomatists is good for something.

于连意识到外交官的矫揉造作是有好处的。

And she wore a hat always; a quite unnecessary piece of affectation.

她总是戴着帽子； 个完全不必要的矫揉造作。

" Then you think I'm only one of their affectations, I take it" .

“那你认为我只是他们的矫揉造作之，我接受了”。

All coquetry, all affectation, were absolutely alien to her temperament.

所有的撒娇， 所有的矫揉造作， 都与她的气质格格不入。

Besides, there's something artificial, melodramatic in your striding'.

此外，你的步伐中有些矫揉造作、夸张的成分。

On this particular day, whether or not by reason of some affectation on her part, she proved cruel to bores.

在这个特殊的日子里，不管是不是出于她的某种矫揉造作的原因，她都表现得冷酷无情。

The more his reason was offended by the grotesque affectations of the prince the more he despised himself for not having them.

王子的怪诞矫揉造作越是激怒他的理智， 他越是鄙视自己没有这些。

It is a simple, but effective motivation, which is also shown by its absence in the sequels, in which John's motivation feels rather contrived.

这是个简单而有效的动机，在续集中没有出现也说明了这点，在续集中，约翰的动机给人种相当矫揉造作的感觉。

She was almost painfully refined—she wore a last year's hat covered with violets no more yearningly pretentious and palpably artificial than herself.

她几乎是精致得令人痛苦——她戴着顶去年的帽子，上面覆盖着紫罗兰色，并不比她更令人向往的自命不凡和明显的矫揉造作。

The Two Hussars (1856) has a quality of pretentiousness and elegance, a snobbish worldly flavour, which shocks one as coming from Tolstoy.

《两个骠骑兵》（1856 年）具有种矫揉造作和优雅的气质， 种势利的世俗气息， 令人震惊，仿佛出自托尔斯泰之手。

So you throw on a contrived smile before you go out the door, even when you're having a bad day, as great as smiling feels.

所以，即使你今天过得很糟糕，你也会在出门前挤出个矫揉造作的微笑，尽管微笑的感觉很好。

' asked Nancy, stopping some turbulent exclamation on the part of Mr. Sikes, expressive of the disgust with which he received Fagin's affectation of humanity.

“南希问道，停止了赛克斯先生的些激烈的惊呼，表达了他对费金对人性的矫揉造作的厌恶。

We become awkward and self-conscious; denying our own qualities, we write with an affectation of goodness and simplicity which is nauseating in the extreme.

我们变得笨拙、难为情；我们否认自己的品质，用种矫揉造作的善良和简单的态度来写作，这是极其令人作呕的。

Happily, he had not, on this occasion, that artificial air which had made the assignation of the previous night a triumph rather than a pleasure.

幸运的是，这次他没有那种使前天晚上的约会成为种胜利而不是种乐趣的那种矫揉造作的神情。