The man is not humble, but he puts on an affectation of humility.

这个男人并不谦虚，却装作一副谦虚的样子。

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They all thought this was affectation, and because she did not wish to sing excepting in the parlor, when on the table with the grand people.

他们都认为这是做作，因为她不希望唱例外时，在客厅与人民大表。

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Wu: Nevertheless, media, like the other side it reveals, also shows deceit, affectation, lie and hypocrisy, which seems similar to the mottles and the faintly discernible traces on your painting.

吴：可是媒体也正向它展现的另一面一样，呈现出蒙蔽、矫饰、谎言与伪善，这与你绘画中的斑驳和若隐若现的痕迹似乎类同。

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Bizarrely, one of Dr Lomborg's critics in Scientific American criticises as an affectation the book's insistence on documenting every statistic and every quotation with a reference to a published source.

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

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