histrionics
n. (用作单数)戏剧表演,舞台艺术; (常复数)装模做样
If you disapprove of someone's dramatic and exaggerated behaviour, you can describe it as histrionics .
When I explained everything to my mum and dad, there were no histrionics.
我一五一十地把一切都向父母解释清楚了。
1. a performance of play
2. a deliberate display of emotion for effect
When I explained every-thing to my mum and dad, there were no histrionics.
我一五一十地把一切都向父母解释清楚了。
Somehow all this anguish and excitement, all the grief and histrionics, only whetted my appetite.
不知怎么搞的,她所有这些痛苦和激动 、 所有的悲伤和做作只是激发了我的欲望.