Fastidious

(adj.) giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; 'a fastidious and incisive intellect'; 'fastidious about personal cleanliness' .

(adj.) having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; 'fastidious microorganisms'; 'certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements' .

校对:凯尔西

• She meant 'facinating', but as Grace didn't know the exact meaning of either word, fastidious sounded well and made a good impression. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Yet I almost trembled for fear of making the answer too cordial: Graham's tastes are so fastidious. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He was at the same time haughty, reserved, and fastidious, and his manners, though well-bred, were not inviting. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• And he was really a very pleasing young man, a young man whom any woman not fastidious might like. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• But are there not also fastidious, angry, querulential readers? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I would not be so fastidious as you are, cried Mr. Bingley, for a kingdom! 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Now, Laurie, don't be too fastidious and worldly-minded. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Is Mr. Rochester an exacting, fastidious sort of man? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I was no vocalist myself, and, in his fastidious judgment, no musician, either; but I delighted in listening when the performance was good. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He is fastidious and will have an affectation of his own. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Everything about him accorded with the fastidious element in her taste, even to the light irony with which he surveyed what seemed to her most sacred. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Many besides her uncle asked what she meant, and whom she expected to entrap, that she was so insolently fastidious. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• My sister Beth is a very fastidious girl, when she likes to be, said Amy, well pleased at Beth's success. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Enfin, elle sait, said he, half dissatisfied, and one cannot be fastidious or exacting under the circumstances. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Aye, I said, I knew all along that a fastidious gentleman like you would not be contented with the thoughts of other people about these matters. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Martin, safe in the larder, made fastidious selection from its stores. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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