2012_06_04 Histrionics n. 裝腔作勢 Dramatic representation

Word of the Day for Monday, June  4, 2012
histrionics \his-tree-ON-iks\, noun:
1. Behavior or speech for effect, as insincere or exaggerated expression of an emotion.
2. Dramatic representation; theatricals; acting.
You are constantly talking about Beate's histrionics, her showing off.
 -- Alberto Moravia, 1934
Of course it is not only southern writers, of lyrical bent, who engage in such histrionics and shout, "Look at me!" Perhaps it is a parable of all artists.
 -- Tennessee Williams, New Selected Essays
Though it sounds like the word history, histrionics has a different root. It comes from the Etruscan root histriōn- which meant "actor".
裝腔作勢\他的樹-ON-IKS\，名詞：

1。行為或言論的影響，言不由衷或誇張的情感表達。
2。戲劇性的代表性;戲劇演出;演技。

你不斷地談論·貝亞特·的裝腔作勢，她炫耀。
- 阿爾貝托摩拉維亞，1934年

當然，它不僅是南方作家抒情彎曲，在從事這樣的裝腔作勢和呼喊，“看看我！”也許是所有藝術家的比喻。
- 田納西·威廉斯，新選定的散文

雖然它聽起來像這個詞的歷史，裝腔作勢，有一個不同的根。它是從的伊特魯里亞根histriōn的意思是“演員”。

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