They joked about his inaptitude.

他们取笑他的笨拙。

Was it simply the hysteria of a man who aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?

那么，明明知道这种爱不甚适当，难道这只是一个歇斯底里的男人感到自欺之需而做出的举动吗？

Was it simply the 17 hysteria of a man who, aware deep down of his 18 inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?

那么，明明知道这种爱不甚适当，难道这只是一个歇斯底里的男人感到自欺之需而作出的伪举吗？

But when he does bring himself to confess to an error of this kind it is with absolute frankness; in fact, he seems to derive a perverse pleasure in dwelling upon his inaptitude.

不过一旦开始谈起一个这类错误他便十分坦诚，其实一讲起自己做的蠢事他还能反常地从中得到几分乐趣呢。