喜樂美語
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    An affectation is a way of behaving, speaking, or dressing that does not come naturally — you are putting it on. It might be a accent you did not grow up with, a little gesture you copied, or a taste you display because it looks clever. The word is usually cool or : it says the thing is fake, or at least not fully sincere. One affectation is one habit; a person can have several. Writers also use it of a style that feels forced, as if the person is performing 'being artistic' or 'being refined'. It is not affection (real warmth), and it is not an effect (a result). Though actually, people have always put on manners in formal rooms; we only call it an affectation when the put-on shows.

    矯揉造作、裝腔作勢、故意做出來的樣子

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組成From Latin affectātiō / affectāre (to aim at, to put on), built on ad- (to) + facere (to do). Same deep root as affect: a feeling or manner you work at, which later split into real influence and fake display.

同家族的字

  • affectsame Latin root; affectation is the put-on manner, not the verb 'to change something'
  • affectedthe adjective: manners or speech that sound put on

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

affectationnoun/ˌæf.ɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/

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    An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.

    • This poem is strongly tinctured with those pedantic affectations concerning the passion of love ...
    • [T]hey were not the spoiled children of affectation and refinement, but a bold, vigorous, independent race of thinkers, with prodigious strength and energy, with none but natural grace, and heartfelt unobtrusive delicacy.
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    An unusual mannerism.

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    rareAn ostentatious fondness for something.

    • The grace diuineſt Mercvrie hath done me, / In this vouchſafde diſcouerie of himſelfe, / Binds my obſeruance in the vtmoſt terme / Of ſatisfaction, to his godly will: / Though I profeſſe (without the affectation / Of an enforc’d, and form’d auſteritie) / I could be willing to enioy no place / With ſo vnequall natures.
    • Her upper part of decent diſcipline / Shew’d affecation of an ancient line: / And fathers, councils, church and churches head, / Were on her reverend Phylacteries read.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。