矫揉造作

I hate affected, niminy-piminy chits!

&我最痛恨娇滴滴的、矫揉造作的小丫头片子！&

"Hellfire and Herring" is a masterly work that enlivens the past with beauty and emotion, yet never sags into soft-focus sentimentality.

地狱之火与鲱鱼》，这部出色的作品以优美的叙述和丰富的情感再现了过去的时光，同时又不流于那些矫揉造作的多愁感伤。

The down-at-heel luvvy will puff and sweat his way around shopping centres in a preposterous foam suit, and the best coverage the chump can expect is a twee headline in the local rag.

那些穿着怪异的海绵橡胶服的落破的演员，只能在购物中心附近狼狈地转悠，而能够期望得到的最好的新闻报道也就是当地小报的一条矫揉造作的所谓头条。

He had nervous mannerisms that intensely irritated me.

他那些矫揉造作的神经质的姿势让我恼火透了。

In an entertainment arena dominated by over-the-top action flicks, florid melodramas and broad comedies, this is no small achievement.

在由顶级动作片、矫揉造作的情节片与题材广泛的喜剧片占据垄断地位的娱乐界，是不小的成就。

Unpretentious, just like the deep breath of Yogini, so natural and so tender.

完美而优雅的性感姿态，没有故摆姿态，没有矫揉造作，只淡然的独自绽放着，自然曼妙。

The French and Italian poets gave preference to the Italian form of sonnet—two groups of four lines, or quatrains (always rhymed a-b-b-a a-b-b-a) followed by two groups of three lines, or tercets (variously rhymed c-c-d e-e-d or c-c-d e-d-e)—which created a sonorous music in the vowel rich Romance languages, but in Shakespeare it is artificial and monotonous for the English language.

法国和意在利诗人优先使用意大利格式的商籁诗----两组四行诗（总是按a-b-b-a a-b-b-a的格式押韵）加上两组三行诗（按c-c-d e-e-d或 c-c-d e-d-e格式押韵），这就在元音丰富的罗马语言中产生了一种感人的音乐节奏，然而放在莎士比亚的英语作品里，就变得矫揉造作和枯燥单调。

Once a detective story can be as good as this, only the pedants will deny that it could be even better.

没有疑问，除了最愚蠢和最浮夸的作家以外，谁都比以前更意识到他们的矫揉造作。

Some of these children were fair and rounded, others dark and elf-like; but one and all looked entirely happy, and quite unself-conscious, giving no impression of artifice, though they had evidently had the highest and most careful training.

孩子们有的白晰而丰腴，有的黝深而窈窕；但个个都欢欣愉快，天真烂漫，丝毫没有矫揉造作之态，尽管她们显然都受过高超和认真的训练。

Some of these children were fair and工rounded, others dark and elf-like; but one and all looked entirely happy, and quite unself-conscious, giving no impression of artifice , though they had evidently had the highest and most careful training.

孩子们有的白晰而丰腴，有的黝深而窈窕；但个个都欢欣愉快，天真烂漫，丝毫没有矫揉造作之态，尽管她们显然都受过高超和认真的训练。到中国译典经典版本中查找关于artifice的最新解释和例句。。。。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。