No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.

假充具有独特的个性无法掩盖平凡庸俗的性格。

But it's not an affectation either.

但这也不是矫揉造作。

You see, it's a learned affectation, but humility comes from inside out.

你看，这是一种后天养成的做作之情，但内在自我的谦逊却是由内而外的。

Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation.

好的写作通常要求作者放下恐惧和造作。

In this wonderful combination, his affectations of literature must not be omitted.

要深入讨论这个奇妙的复合体，他对文学的热爱不能略而不述。

It's an affectation, it's associated with a social elite - probably everybody does it to a degree or another.

可以说这是一种矫情，社会上层人士才会做——不过也许现在已经变得很大众化了。

True, I said, but this is no affectation.

是的，我说，但这并不是做作。

" Yes, " answered Mary without any affectation.

“是的，”玛丽毫不矫揉造作地回答。

" What affectation of diffidence was this at first" ?

“这起初是什么虚伪的表现”？

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。