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Fastidiousness is the noun: the quality of being very careful about small details — or of being hard to please about them. You can praise it: her fastidiousness saved the report from small errors. You can also sigh at it: his fastidiousness about the table setting drove everyone mad. It covers the same ground as fastidious, including that older flavour of a thin skin for mess or anything that feels “off.” In writing it is the name of the habit; in talk, people more often just call the person fastidious. Slightly formal. Still not about speed.
一絲不苟、講究(有時也指挑剔)
組成fastidious + -ness. The adjective plus -ness, the usual English ending for a quality.
同家族的字
- fastidiousthe adjective this noun is built from
- fastidiouslythe adverb: in this careful, picky way
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
fastidiousnessnoun
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The quality of being fastidious.
- I told him of the night I had seen her standing with bare feet in the garden, on the frosted lawn.Yes, he said, that was the sort of thing she did. But she had a fastidiousness, a certain personal reticence, that he respected. He never intruded upon it.
- A sense of fastidiousness made the doctor choose the left side, near the door, when he slept in it himself with Clara.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。