histrionics
n. (用作單數)戲劇表演,舞臺藝術; (常複數)裝模做樣
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釋清楚了。
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釋清楚了。
Somehow all this anguish and excitement, all the grief and histrionics, only whetted my appetite.
不知怎麼搞的,她所有這些痛苦和激動 、 所有的悲傷和做作只是激發了我的慾望.