Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
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n. 交谈，会话;交往，交际;会谈;（人与计算机的）人机对话;
💡 con共同+vers转变+ation表名词 → 使大家共同转变态度的会谈 → 会话，非正式会谈
"I had a long conversation with her the other day."
前几天我与她作了一次长谈。
近义：natter, speech, talk, talking, discussion, chat
adj. 可爱的;令人愉快的;有趣的;晴朗的;
💡 pleas=please快乐 + ant...的 → a.令人愉快的，舒适的
"I have many pleasant recollections of the time we spent together."
我有很多有关我们一起度过的时光的美好回忆.
近义：likeable, nice, personable, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing
反义：antipathetic, ingrate, loathsome, offensive, rough, surly
adj. 有学问的;博学的;学术上的;精通某门学问的;
v. 学习(learn的过去式和过去分词);得知;
💡 learn学习+ed形容词后缀 → 有学问的；学术上的
"He has not yet learned how to be gracious in defeat."
他还没有学会怎样豁达大度地面对失败。
近义：highbrow, informed, knowing, knowledgeable, lettered, literate
n. （长篇）小说;[法]新法，附律;
adj. 新奇的;异常的;
💡 nov新的+el表明人或物 →新奇人物 →新奇的；小说
"Her latest novel is a chronicle of life in a Devon village."
她的最近一部小说是德文郡一个小村庄的生活记事。
近义：hot, inceptive, inchoate, incipient, inexperienced, initial
反义：masterful, practiced, proficient, qualified, skilful, skilled
adj. 诙谐的;机智的;会说俏皮话的;聪明的;
"He scored a bull's - eye in their argument with that witty retort."
在他们的辩论中他那一句机智的反驳击中了要害.
近义：humorous, imaginative, ingenious, intelligent, inventive, nifty
反义：humdrum, insipid, insufferable, irksome, irritating, lethal
affectation
[[ˌæfek'teiʃən]]
n. 假装, 做作, 矫情\\n[医] 矫饰, 矫情
近义：malingering, mannerism, pose, pretence, pretense, primness
反义：homeliness, ingenuousness, innocence, artlessness, naivete, naivety