| 词汇 | mannered |
| 释义 | mannered adjective disapprovinguk /ˈmæn.əd/ us /ˈmæn.ɚd/ A mannered style of speech or behaviour is artificial, or intended to achieve a particular effect: 矫揉造作的，不自然的，做作的 His performance as Hamlet was criticized for being very mannered.他扮演的哈姆雷特被批表演过于做作。 Affected & insincere affectation affected affectedly archly artificial feyness forced forcedly fustian glib piously ponce ponce about/around posey preciously sugary super-smooth superslick talk the talk ... walk the walkidiom theatricality -mannered suffix uk / -mæn.əd/ us / -ɚd/ used to describe a person with the behaviour or character of the stated type: 态度…的，举止…的（形容一个人具有某种指定的行为或特征） a bad-mannered boy不懂礼貌的男孩 He was a mild-mannered (= gentle and calm) young man.他是个温文尔雅的小伙子。 I noticed how well-mannered her children were.我注意到她的小孩多么有礼貌。 Behaving, interacting and behaviour as ye sow, so shall ye reapidiom atavism attachment disorder attitude bearing behave conduct example humanization humanize in someone's demeanour interact interaction ism operant phase presence provincialism provincialist sauce mannered | American Dictionarymannered adjective us/ˈmæn·ərd/ having ways of behaving toward people: The children are well mannered. disapproving A mannered way of speaking or behaving is one that is artificial, or intended to achieve a particular effect: He continued to write, but his mannered prose was not well received. Examples of manneredmannered These literary exercises were always mannered and probably always playful. Purely formally, irony makes a transition from the highly mannered and restrictive metric forms of verse to the free seriousness of prose. Moreover, the organisation of the book is mannered to the point of unhelpfulness. The sales message should never become 'a mechanical statement repeated by rote', nor should it sound artificially mannered. Written in the mannered style of the culturalstudies school, it lacks clarity and sometimes descends into the abstruse. But the captions for the show itself, as quoted in the catalogue, are mannered and claustrophobic. In fact, to describe the central performances in these terms could be misleading: to our eyes, the acting looks mannered, with a rather stilted, melodramatic quality about it. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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