stilt

we made stilted conversation.

我们进行了很不自然的谈话。

a house built on stilts to allow air to circulate beneath.

屋子建在支柱上，好让下面有空气流通。

villages of stilted houses.

吊脚的村庄。

All too soon the stilted conversation ran out.

很快这种的交谈就结束了。

he is talking nonsense on stilts, and he knows it.

他正在夸地胡说八道，这一点他自己很清楚。

the formal tone of the programmes caused them to sound stilted and unnatural.

纲领的正式语气让人听来觉得夸。

Wide, traffic-jammed fumy highways swept on stilts between the tower blocks.

摩天大之间的支架上烟雾缭绕，宽阔而拥挤的高速公路四处蔓延。