Kay has no affectation at all.

凯一点也不做作。

《牛津词典》

I wore sunglasses all the time and people thought it was an affectation.

我一直戴着墨镜，别人认为是做作。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

"Yes," answered Mary without any affectation.

“是的。”玛丽毫不虚假地回答。

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He says someone with a flair for cocktail party conversation, a witticism, would say this. He gives it to us, but he frames it as an affectation of style.

他说在一个鸡尾酒派对上交谈的调酒师，这是妙语，他给我们了，但是他将其用娇柔做作的风格包装起来。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So, what Salinger, I think, shows us is that affectation, without something like love, is just affectation, and that's what Lane represents. That's the affectation of literature without any human connection.

所以，Salinger向我们展示的是，这种娇柔做作，不像是喜爱只是娇柔造作，那也是莱恩代表的，那个文学的矫揉造作,并没有任何的与人的联系。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It was easy enough to mock it as hipster affectation, and in some cases it was.

FORBES: Willy DeVille

For most of us soccer is just an odd affectation of foreigners, like minuscule cars, pink shirts on men and the metric system.

ECONOMIST: Island story

From the vantage point of the supposedly classless 1990s, the effort which Anthony Wedgwood Benn put into reinventing himself as plain Tony Benn may sound like an affectation.

ECONOMIST: A great parliamentarian