- 1很挑、挑剔的(挑食時也可說挑食)
A choosy person will not take just anything. They wait for what they really like, or what they think is good enough. It can be about food, friends, clothes, jobs. It is not always a compliment and not always a complaint: it can mean careful taste, or it can mean hard to please. Informal. British English often prefers or ; choosy is widely understood, and a little old-fashioned in some mouths. Though actually, it is simply choose with a -y stuck on: “full of choosing”. About food, English may say choosy or ; in Taiwan that food sense often maps to 挑食, while choosy about other things is 很挑 / 挑剔.
組成choose + -y (“having that quality”).
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
choosyadj/ˈt͡ʃuːzi/
- 1
Taking care when choosing that what is chosen best suits one's tastes, desires or requirements.
- Since sexual relationships are more costly for female primates – they bear the kids – females are the choosier sex.
- Weiss told CNNMoney that Glossier is choosy when it launches a new product.
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