fastidious
fastidious 英 [fæˈstɪdiəs] 美 [fæˈstɪdiəs, fə-]
adj. 挑剔的；苛求的，难取悦的；（微生物等）需要复杂营养地
- If you want to describe a person who insists on perfection or pays much attention to food, clothing and cleanliness, the right word is fastidious.
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- adj. 挑剔的；苛求的，难取悦的；（微生物等）需要复杂营养地
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1. Mitthu, who was a fastidious Brahmin and refused to let people who she suspected of eating buffalo meat into her kitchen, realized she has overlooked this point.
米绨是个挑剔的婆罗门，不允许被她怀疑吃过水牛肉的人进入厨房，凯蒂意识到她忽略了这一点。
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2. Both sisters are fastidious,only in varying degrees.
姐妹俩都很挑剔，不过程度不同而已。
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3. He was at the same time haughty, reserved, and fastidious, and his manners, though well bred, were not inviting.
达西为人兼有傲慢、含蓄和爱挑剔的性子，他虽说受过良好的教养，可是他的风度总不受人欢迎。
- fastidious (adj.) mid-15c., "full of pride," from Latin fastidiosus "disdainful, squeamish, exacting," from fastidium "loathing, squeamishness; dislike, aversion; excessive nicety," which is of uncertain origin; perhaps from *fastu-taidiom, a compound of fastus "contempt, arrogance, pride," and taedium "aversion, disgust." Fastus is possibly from PIE *bhars- (1) "projection, bristle, point," on the notion of "prickliness" (Watkins) or "a semantic shift from 'top' to 'haughtiness' which is conceivable, but the u-stem is not attested independently" [de Vaan], who adds that "fastidium would be a tautology." Early use in English was both in passive and active senses. Meaning "squeamish, over-nice" in English emerged 1610s. Related: Fastidiously; fastidiousness.
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