Exacting
[ɪg'zæktɪŋ;eg-]
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exact
(a.) Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe.
校對:洛丽塔
例句/造句/用法:
- 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. 維萊特.
- They are not very exacting, after all. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- You were exacting, proud, punctilious, selfish. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Is Mr. Rochester an exacting, fastidious sort of man? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It was an inconvenient and exacting institution, as requiring everything in the universe to be filed down and fitted to it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I wish Society was not so arbitrary, I wish it was not so exacting--Bird, be quiet! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Mrs. Spirit's 'sir,' in addressing Mr. Bounderby, was a word of ceremony, rather exacting consideration for herself in the use, than honouring him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I come down here, for instance, and I find a mighty potentate exacting homage. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Enfin, elle sait, said he, half dissatisfied, and one cannot be fastidious or exacting under the circumstances. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- 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. 簡·愛.
校對:洛丽塔