单词 | fastidious |
释义 | fastidiousWord family adverbfastidiouslyadjectivefastidiousnounfastidiousness fas·tid·i·ous /fæˈstɪdiəs/ adjectiveadj CAREFULvery careful about small details in your appearance, work etc 挑剔的,讲究的 SYN meticulous people who are fastidious about personal hygiene 十分讲究个人卫生的人 —fastidiously adverbadv —fastidiousness noun [uncountableU] Examples from the Corpus fastidious• When hungry times set in, the scouts become less fastidious and give lengthy dances even for poor food.• A cat is a fastidious animal that washes itself frequently.• Archie may not have been fastidious, but in his own way he was cultivated.• Such questions are distasteful for a fastidious cleric who thinks of sexuality as a loss of self-control.• His fastidious imagination shied away from the details of Jack's new ménage.• Vibrato, like all flavouring, needs very fastidious use on brass instruments.• And second, the boy was fastidious with his toy. (1400-1500) Latin fastidiosus, from fastidium “strong dislike” |
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