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A mannerism is a little habit in the way a particular person speaks or moves — something they do again and again without really thinking, until other people start to notice it. Someone who always tucks their hair behind one ear, or who ends every sentence with “right?”, has a mannerism. The word is fairly calm and a bit school-teacherly. A mannerism can be sweet, or it can start to you; the word itself does not decide. It is lighter than a medical tic, and a little less neutral than habit: there is often a hint of “that’s so them.” Though actually, this is not manners (being polite), and it is not “in a manner of speaking.” A person can have beautiful manners and still have a mannerism that makes you smile. In art class you may also meet Mannerism with a capital M, an old painting style; that is a different word in the same spelling, and not this sense.
習慣性的小動作、說話習慣
原始詞典資料5 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。
Mannerismnoun
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artartsA style of art developed at the end of the High Renaissance, characterized by the deliberate distortion and exaggeration of perspective and especially the elongation of figures.
mannerismnoun詞源 1/ˈmænəˌɹɪzəm/
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A noticeable personal habit, a verbal or other (often, but not necessarily unconscious) habitual behavior peculiar to an individual.
- The Inspector looked round. He knew well enough that they were alone in the study at The Turrets, but the action had become something of a mannerism with him.
- In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
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Exaggerated or affected style in art, speech, or other behavior.
- artists […] dabblingly pursuing a kind of formalist mannerism merely in the interest of careerism
- He generally spoke without academic mannerism, though on occasion he dipped into the over-wrought thickets of eduspeak to find words like “antithetical” or “foci” or “interface.”
mannerismnoun詞源 2/ˈmænəˌɹɪzəm/
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artartsliteratureIn literature, an ostentatious and unnatural style of the second half of the sixteenth century. In the contemporary criticism, described as a negation of the classicist equilibrium, pre-Baroque, and deforming expressiveness.
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artartsliteratureIn fine art, a style that is inspired by previous models, aiming to reproduce subjects in an expressive language.
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。