Fastidious
[fæ'stɪdɪəs]
解释:
(adj.) giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; 'a fastidious and incisive intellect'; 'fastidious about personal cleanliness' .
(adj.) having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; 'fastidious microorganisms'; 'certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements' .
校对:凯尔西--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.
录入:卢
同义词及近义词：
a. Squeamish, difficult, queasy, critical, dainty, over-nice, over-delicate, hard to please.
卡洛整理
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Critical, overnice, overrefined, censorious, punctillious, particular,squeamish, dainty
ANT:Easy, indulgent, uncritical, coarse, omnivorous
编辑:思朋斯
解释:
adj. affecting superior taste: over-nice: difficult to please.—adv. Fastid′iously.—n. Fastid′iousness.
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例句:
- She meant 'facinating', but as Grace didn't know the exact meaning of either word, fastidious sounded well and made a good impression. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Yet I almost trembled for fear of making the answer too cordial: Graham's tastes are so fastidious. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- He was at the same time haughty, reserved, and fastidious, and his manners, though well-bred, were not inviting. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- And he was really a very pleasing young man, a young man whom any woman not fastidious might like. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- But are there not also fastidious, angry, querulential readers? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- I would not be so fastidious as you are, cried Mr. Bingley, for a kingdom! 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- Now, Laurie, don't be too fastidious and worldly-minded. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Is Mr. Rochester an exacting, fastidious sort of man? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- I was no vocalist myself, and, in his fastidious judgment, no musician, either; but I delighted in listening when the performance was good. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- He is fastidious and will have an affectation of his own. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- Everything about him accorded with the fastidious element in her taste, even to the light irony with which he surveyed what seemed to her most sacred. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Many besides her uncle asked what she meant, and whom she expected to entrap, that she was so insolently fastidious. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- My sister Beth is a very fastidious girl, when she likes to be, said Amy, well pleased at Beth's success. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- 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.
- Aye, I said, I knew all along that a fastidious gentleman like you would not be contented with the thoughts of other people about these matters. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Martin, safe in the larder, made fastidious selection from its stores. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
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