Scrupulous
['skruːpjʊləs] or ['skrupjələs]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled; 'less scrupulous producers sent bundles that were deceptive in appearance' .
錄入:朱迪思--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Conscientious, punctilious, strict, nice.[2]. Cautious, careful, exact, vigilant.
手打:萨曼莎
同義詞及反義詞：
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/造句/用法:
- But, to that nature, the very unbounded trust reposed in him was bond and seal for the most scrupulous accuracy. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Scrupulous care I will take, Mr. Sympson. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She was displeased; I thought unreasonably so: I thought her, on a thousand occasions, unnecessarily scrupulous and cautious: I thought her even cold. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- She ascended to her bedroom and dressed herself with scrupulous care. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- We have said in walked Mr. Job Trotter, but the statement is not distinguished by our usual scrupulous adherence to fact. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- It is rather late in the day for you to be scrupulous. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- You have too good a right to a free pardon, to render you very scrupulous about peccadilloes. 沃爾特·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. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Mr. Giles, dressed with scrupulous care in a full suit of black, was in attendance upon them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Not many people are scrupulous about smuggling, when, without perjury, they can find an easy and safe opportunity of doing so. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- So scrupulous for others, he continued, and yet so careless for herself! 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- You heard him sneer at my presuming to be scrupulous--you heard him say I had made a virtue of necessity in marrying him. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- His scrupulous) mind was coming ever closer to the goal of his ambition. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Moore was less scrupulous. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- In one sense she is as scrupulous as, in another, she is unthinking. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- You are over-scrupulous, surely. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- But he had also the prejudices and scrupulous timidity of his persecuted people, and those were to be conquered. 沃爾特·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. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- But as to counts, marquises, dukes, earls, and the like, I was not so scrupulous. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
手打:劳里