他装模作样地向那个女士鞠了一躬。

He is a good man underneath his pompous appearance.

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于是猴子便装模作样地给小熊看了病，并且理所应当地收下了那篮桃子。

So Monkey put on a big show of examining Little Bear, and accepted his well-earned basket of peaches.

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其中一个工人装模作样地问道，在被带往警察局之前，是否可以打一个电话。

Pretending to speak seriously, one of the workmen asked if he might make a telephone call before being taken to the station.

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reciting the text, emoting over it, enthusing about it, - and then looking around for something else to say-- it was no longer a question of doing that.

或者只是背诵篇子，装模作样地读一读，假装很感兴趣，然后没话找话的评论一番-,现在意义上的精读可不是这样的了。

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If,when we interpret the claim everyone dies alone, that just ends up being a slightly pretentious way of saying everyone dies, we might say,oh yeah,that is true and it is a necessary truth, but it's not especially surprising.

如果我们对每个人都孤独而死的诠释，只是装模作样地说明人终有一死，那我们会说，这是真理，也是必要的，但并没有什么好惊奇的。

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