affectation meaning in English
n.
假装；做作，矫揉造作，装模作样(的态度)。 an affectation of kindness 假慈悲。 without affectation 老老实实地，直率地。
Examples
- She did so, at any rate, without affectation .
她这样做至少是毫不矫揉造作。 - Her affectations make you sick .
她那装模作样劲儿真令人作呕。 - He hated his mother's affectations .
他讨厌他妈妈的做作。 - I can't dance attendance on your affectations now .
现在我不能再给你的装腔作势凑趣了。 - She did not know how to answer her mother's shrill, meaningless questions, put with the furious affectation of maternal concern .
她不知怎样回答母亲带着一种极为虚假的母爱向她提出的那些哀哀切切、一点意思也没有的问题。