Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
應該是下麵這個意思:
其實,那些推心置腹大多是自作多情--每次我看出苗頭,有人要向我傾述衷腸,我就常常裝睡,或者裝作有事,甚至用輕佻來激怒他們讓他們不要開口,那些年輕人的表白,至少他們的言辭,常常是陳腔濫調,欲說還休,言不由衷。