Exacting
[ɪg'zæktɪŋ;eg-]
解释:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exact
(a.) Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe.
校对:洛丽塔
例句:
- I found her a furrowed, grey-haired woman, grave with solitude, stern with long affliction, irritable also, and perhaps exacting. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- They are not very exacting, after all. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- You were exacting, proud, punctilious, selfish. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- They took many things for granted that now we know need to be made the subject of the most exacting scientific study and the most careful adjustment. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Is Mr. Rochester an exacting, fastidious sort of man? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- It was an inconvenient and exacting institution, as requiring everything in the universe to be filed down and fitted to it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I wish Society was not so arbitrary, I wish it was not so exacting--Bird, be quiet! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Mrs. Spirit's 'sir,' in addressing Mr. Bounderby, was a word of ceremony, rather exacting consideration for herself in the use, than honouring him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- I come down here, for instance, and I find a mighty potentate exacting homage. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Enfin, elle sait, said he, half dissatisfied, and one cannot be fastidious or exacting under the circumstances. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- I had learnt her whole character, which was without mystery or disguise: she was coquettish but not heartless; exacting, but not worthlessly selfish. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
校对:洛丽塔