Scrupulous
['skruːpjʊləs] or ['skrupjələs]
解释:
(adj.) having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled; 'less scrupulous producers sent bundles that were deceptive in appearance' .
录入:朱迪思--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Full ofscrupules; inclined to scruple; nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act, from a fear of offending or of doing wrong.
(a.) Careful; cautious; exact; nice; as, scrupulous abstinence from labor; scrupulous performance of duties.
(a.) Given to making objections; captious.
(a.) Liable to be doubted; doubtful; nice.
休整理
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Conscientious, punctilious, strict, nice.[2]. Cautious, careful, exact, vigilant.
手打:萨曼莎
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Conscientious, dubious, diffident, punctilious, exact, cautious, nice, precise,reluctant
ANT:reckless, unscrupulous, unhesitating, confident, self-satisfied,self-complacent, eager
手打:劳里
例句:
- But, to that nature, the very unbounded trust reposed in him was bond and seal for the most scrupulous accuracy. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Scrupulous care I will take, Mr. Sympson. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- She was displeased; I thought unreasonably so: I thought her, on a thousand occasions, unnecessarily scrupulous and cautious: I thought her even cold. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- She ascended to her bedroom and dressed herself with scrupulous care. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- We have said in walked Mr. Job Trotter, but the statement is not distinguished by our usual scrupulous adherence to fact. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- It is rather late in the day for you to be scrupulous. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- You have too good a right to a free pardon, to render you very scrupulous about peccadilloes. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- A more scrupulous woman than I was--a woman who had not set her heart on a gold watch and chain--would have found some excuses for him. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Mr. Giles, dressed with scrupulous care in a full suit of black, was in attendance upon them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Not many people are scrupulous about smuggling, when, without perjury, they can find an easy and safe opportunity of doing so. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- So scrupulous for others, he continued, and yet so careless for herself! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- You heard him sneer at my presuming to be scrupulous--you heard him say I had made a virtue of necessity in marrying him. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- His scrupulous) mind was coming ever closer to the goal of his ambition. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Moore was less scrupulous. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- In one sense she is as scrupulous as, in another, she is unthinking. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- You are over-scrupulous, surely. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- But he had also the prejudices and scrupulous timidity of his persecuted people, and those were to be conquered. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- You have not implied to me that the symptoms which--I am bound to testify--you watched with scrupulous care, were those of a fatal disease. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- But as to counts, marquises, dukes, earls, and the like, I was not so scrupulous. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
手打:劳里