在誠實和公平上不肯放過
核心畫面裡那個「停下來」，停的是道德上的小事。這一家是稱讚，因為停的人並沒有被誰要求要停。
adjective · C1
Very careful to be completely honest and fair, even in small matters that nobody would ever check.
正直嚴謹；一絲不苟
核心畫面
You can picture a scrupulous person as someone who cannot walk past a small thing. Everyone else says it is too small to matter — five dollars of change, one step in a procedure, a promise nobody heard — and they stop anyway, because to them it is not small. All three uses are that same stop: over what is fair, over what is complete, or, turned inward and painful, over whether they themselves have done wrong.
「scrupulous」可以想成一個人走不過去一件小事。別人都說「這麼小沒差啦」——多找的五塊錢、流程裡的一個步驟、…更多收起
「scrupulous」可以想成一個人走不過去一件小事。別人都說「這麼小沒差啦」——多找的五塊錢、流程裡的一個步驟、沒人聽到的一句承諾——他還是停下來，因為對他來說那不小。這個字的三種用法，都可以想成同一個「停下來」：停在公不公平上、停在做完了沒有上，或者轉向自己、變成痛苦的那一種——一直停在「我是不是做錯了」上面。Three branches
在做事的細節上不肯漏掉
同一個「停下來」，換成停在流程和細節上：那一步看起來可以跳過，他就是不跳。跟道德無關，只跟徹底有關。
adjective · C1
Doing something so carefully that no step and no detail is left out.
極其仔細；一個細節都不漏
轉向自己的過度自責
畫面不變，方向變了：停下來檢查的對象是自己。而且停不下來，所以這一家不是稱讚，是在描述一種痛苦。
adjective · C2
Feeling guilty or anxious about whether your own actions are wrong, far more than the facts call for — the sense used in religious writing and in psychology for the condition called scrupulosity.
（宗教／心理）過度自責的