She had the easily stirred passions of her Irish father and nothing except the thinnest veneer of her mother's unselfish and forbearing nature.

她有着和她的爱尔兰父亲一样容易感情冲动的品质，可是像她母亲那样无私坚忍的天性儿没有，只不过学到了一点点表面的虚饰。

Under her silvery hair was a smooth face with a false smile and evil eyes, but she was polite enough.

满头白发下面是一张光滑的脸，带着虚饰的微笑和不怀好的眼神，但不管怎么说，她还算客气。

But Mammy was under no illusions about her and was constantly alert for breaks in the veneer.

但是嬷嬷对她并不存幻想，倒是经常警觉地观察着这种虚饰上的破绽。

And I don't like commercials for that reason and I don't like a plastic office place where everyone's dressed up nicely, I feel it's a veneer.

因此我不喜欢广告， 也不喜欢每个人都打扮得漂漂亮亮的塑料办公场所，我觉得那是一种虚饰。

And anyway, God had shown his hand against such a bauble, no more than a feather in a man's hat, as he called it.

无论如何， 上帝已经表明他不赞成这种虚饰， 在他看来，这不过是帽子上的羽毛，微不足道。

Simple and unaffected, he never cared for the trappings of dignity; when he was shackled with an office, he described himself as a harnessed deer.

他是纯然一副淳朴自然相，故无需乎尊贵的虚饰；在为官职所羁绊时，他自称局促如辕下之驹。