nitpicking

英['nɪtɪpɪkɪŋ] 美['nɪtɪpɪkɪŋ]
  • adj. 挑剔的;吹毛求疵的
  • nita n.尼特(Juanita的昵称)(f
  • nite n.=night
  • niter n.硝酸钾(硝酸钠)
  • nitery n.=nightclub
  • nitid adj.明亮的;发光的
动词 nitpick:
  1. be overly critical; criticize minor details

1. I can get down to nitpicking detail, I am pretty fussy about certain things.
我会挑剔细节,而且对某些事情我会相当吹毛求疵。

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2. I'm sick of all this nitpicking.
这样的吹毛求疵我感到讨厌。

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3. Worries of this nature are not mere nitpicking.
然而这样的担心不纯粹是吹毛求疵。

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4. You're nitpicking.
你太吹毛求疵了。

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5. If you spent less time nitpicking you'd get more work done.
如果你少花些时间在吹毛求疵上,会做好更多的事情。

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6. On the whole it's a good book; and it would be nitpicking to dwell on those small defects.
总的说来,这是一本好书,若对不足之处过多指摘,未免吹毛求疵。

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7. A change in attitude for better or worse, nitpicking over things, looking for reasons to fight.
他的生活态度发生变化,可能变好也可能変糟,常常吹毛求疵,寻衅吵架。

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8. It is the kind of semantic nitpicking that has made progressive movements unappealing to many Americans.
这是一种语义上的“挑刺”,使得进步的运动失去了对许多美国人的吸引力。

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9. Don't make the classic mistakes of spending too much time nitpicking or making mountains out of molehills.
不要对这些常见的拼写错误大惊小怪、小题大做以至于浪费时间。

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10. If you start nitpicking or start getting mean, the situation will get out of control, nothing will get solved, and you'll both be angry.
如果你一开始吃毛求疵,小里小气,局面将会失控,什么也解决不了,两人都感到愤怒。

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11. This may seem like nitpicking in some cases, but those policies and conventions were presumably established for a good reason, so they should be upheld.
有些时候这样做显得吹毛求疵,但是定下这些规定和规范是有缘由的,所以应该遵守。

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12. It's a tough thing for any internal product or engineering team to face - the thought of an external group nitpicking apart their gem, but it's worth it.
想到一个外部企业对自己的珍品吹毛求疵,每一个内部产品和工程团队都很难面对,但这样做是值得的。

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13. It's nitpicking but I'd like a little more of a killer instinct — he has the ability to get40or50 and he's on a team that needs him to do that now.
这有些吹毛求疵,但我更喜欢一点一个杀手本性,这个杀手有能力得到40分或50分,他在球队需要他的时候出现。

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14. While some of us take the higher ground, others revel in off-color jokes and nitpicking the different ways the iPad will be Apple's biggest mistake ever.
有的人站的角度比较高,有的人则沉醉于低俗的恶搞中,并吹毛求疵地称iPad将是苹果最大的败笔。

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15. The above criticisms seem as though a lot of nitpicking is being done on beautiful Singapore, but I believe other foreign tourists feel the same way.
以上几点,可算是对美丽的新加坡作鸡蛋里挑骨头,但窃以为其他外来游客也会认同的。

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16. A lot of older people are crotchety because they've been complaining all their lives. Down in Florida, my mother describes condo-association bickering as' nitpicking in paradise.
很多老年人脾气暴躁,因为他们一辈子都在怨天尤人。(在佛罗里达州,我妈妈把公寓里的邻里争吵称为“在天堂里吹毛求疵”。)

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17. A lot of older people are crotchety because they've been complaining all their lives. Down in Florida, my mother describes condo-association bickering as' nitpicking in paradise.
很多老年人脾气暴躁,因为他们一辈子都在怨天尤人。(在佛罗里达州,我妈妈把公寓里的邻里争吵称为“在天堂里吹毛求疵”。)

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