fastidious

1 The ethos of the 1960s is, of course, omnipresent in Mad Men — and not just in its fastidious commitment to the furniture and fashions of the time.

2 ...her fastidious attention to historical detail...

她对历史细节的过分关注

3 I learned this all-important tip from my mom, who's fastidious in her labeling of pantry, fridge, and freezer items.

4 Houston didn’t write her own material; she just sang like she did, courtesy of Cissy’s fastidious coaching.

5 Usually, a critic with the first gift is charming but slight, “middlebrow,” while the other kind can be tiresomely fastidious.

6 “When you try to clean it up, you make it worse. This is never going to sound like a Steely Dan record,” he said, referencing a band known for its fastidious recordings.

7 Such seemingly fastidious care makes some gardeners cringe.

8 “Decades of use by people not known for fastidious habits had given the room a patina of grime,” he wrote in a 2007 essay about the newspaper.

9 Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” is fastidious and somewhat contained.

10 Mr Duhigg is an effective storyteller with a knack for combining social science, fastidious reporting and entertaining anecdotes.

11 No sooner do they reach a truce on those issues than Karen's mom, a hippie, wheedles her way into the basement apartment, to share it with the fastidious Meena, who's having her own difficulties adjusting.

12 She is too fastidious about her food and clothing.

她太讲究吃穿。

13 She is so fastidious about her food that I never invite her for dinner.

她对食物过于挑剔，因此我从不请她吃饭。

14 It’s a travesty, because Liu, a seasoned stuntman, has the effortless acrobatics and fastidious martial arts technique of an A-list action hero.

15 A charcoal, “Study for ‘The Poor Fisherman,’” has an uncharacteristic graphic freedom, while a rendering of a man’s arm is a tour de force of fastidious description and shading, and equally out of character.

16 “The thinking was anyone who had plastic surgery in her thirties would have more, not less, as time goes on,” Mitchell said, “and anyone as fastidious about her teeth would stay that way.”

17 Philip is fastidious, unlike Buster, who wallows in the dirt.

18 “Now, Laurie, don’t be too fastidious and worldly-minded. If they love one another it doesn’t matter a particle how old they are nor how poor. Women never should marry for money...”

19 She meant ‘facinating’, but as Grace didn’t know the exact meaning of either word, fastidious sounded well and made a good impression.

20 “If a ballot falls on the floor what do you do?” a tall, fastidious official observer asks her.

1 仔细挑选的

select

2 过分讲究

fine particular precious finicky choosy picky preciously kid-glove kid-gloved overnice particularity preciosity miminy-piminy nicey-nice curious fussy anal-retentive niminy-piminy overcurious curiosity dainty

3 讲究整洁

fastidiousness

4 难讨好的

miminy-piminy fussy

5 难于取悦的

difficult delicate queasy

6 讲究

particular

7 爱挑剔的

censorious pernickety fussy finicky miminy-piminy nice picky choosy critical particular delicate choosey aristocratic persnickety chary niminy-piminy

8 苛求

demanding exacting finical squeamishly squeamishness

9 讲究的

elegant particular

10 吹毛求疵

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11 苛求的

demanding exacting finical particular hypercritical exigent

12 严谨

exact strict schematic rigour

13 吹毛求疵的

particular censorious hypercritical pernickety pettifogging critical fussy bitchy finical faultfinding picky captious overcritical over-particular overnice

14 一丝不苟

careful meticulous scrupulous carefully exact precise conscientious punctilious dot your i's and cross your t's

15 爱挑剔

nice particular delicate picky choosy censorious pernickety choosey miminy-piminy critical fussy aristocratic finicky persnickety chary niminy-piminy dainty

16 过分注意细节的

meticulous

17 挑剔

faultfinding particular delicate picky dainty anal-retentive nitpicking old-maidish nicely particularity quarrel quiddle nitpick fault nibble at find fault particular about find fault with critical fussy choosy faddy fussily niggling fussiness carping carp

18 难以取悦的

nice picky choosy difficult

19 一丝不苟的

careful meticulous scrupulous exact precise conscientious punctilious

20 爱整洁的

neat tidy

21 易生气的

touchy thin-skinned huffy bad-tempered miffy

22 严谨的

exact strict schematic

23 有洁癖的

anal clean dainty

24 过分讲究的

fine particular precious finicky choosy picky kid-glove kid-gloved overnice miminy-piminy nicey-nice curious fussy anal-retentive niminy-piminy overcurious

25 挑剔的

particular delicate picky dainty anal-retentive nitpicking old-maidish critical fussy choosy faddy