音标:[pә'nikiti] ;
a. 不大方的, 爱挑剔的, 难以取悦的, (工作)需要精细的
s. characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details

pernickety的用法和样例:

例句

用作形容词(adj.)
  1. As a writer,he is extremely pernickety about using words correctly.作为一名作家,他对于正确使用言语是极其挑剔的。
  2. Customs officials can get extremely pernickety about things like that.海关官员对于像那样的东西检查起来就会变的极其仔细。

经典引文

  • Such pernickety table manners..seem to me absurd.

    出自:J. Gathorne
  • They became pernickety about small things, always fussing about trifles.

    出自:E. Figes
  • A vast number of substantiating references..at once persuasive and pernickety.

    出自:Notes Queries
【近义词】

Which U.S. sports league was known as the APFA when it was founded in 1920? 以下哪个美国体育联盟在1920年成立时被称为APFA? NFL, MLB, NBA or MLS? NFL, MLB, NBA或MLS? Two years after it was founded, the American Professional Football

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2018年5月

This is Whats Trending Today. People in the United States have been talking about Colin Kaepernick for over a year. If you have not been following American football, here is his story. Last year, Kaepernick was a player for the San Francisco 49ers of

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(326) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(九)月

This is Whats Trending Today. A business deal between Nike and former American football star Colin Kaepernick is creating a flood of debate online. Kaepernick became famous for starting a wave of protests among National Football League players of pol

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(九)月

This is AP News Minute. The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin questioning President Donald Trump's next pick for the Supreme Court on Tuesday. And democrats are expected to grill 53-year-old Brett Kavanaugh on hot button issues that could swing t

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(148) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2018(九)月

AS IT IS 2016-09-11 American Athletes Protest National Anthem The National Football League opens its season in cities across the United States this weekend. Fans will be cheering for their favorite teams and players during games Sunday and Monday. Bu

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(九)月

Decades After An Iconic Protest, Tommie Smith Has Something Else On His Mind play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0004:48repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or updat

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台9月
学英语单词
action pattern
advocacy tank
albulid
anamorphotic attachment
antistreptolysin o
ASIM,A.S.I.M.
Astrida
backup governor
bakerly
ballet british colombia
belt-type exhauster
bernoulli's relations
biotinylated
BTTT
butadiene-styrene copolymer
call analyzer
capacitive two-terminal element
Chaldees
chathetometer
client isolation
comma shaped cuttings
contempt of legislature
convertile
Deep South
dressin
dsDNA
e-i pick off
Eppelborn
ethnise
ethyl triphenyl silicane
exofacial
forensic hematology
fossa interpeduncular
Guebers
hablots
hauter
height of baffle plate
holotrichia sauteri sauteri
hypofluorescence
impregnate with
insinuated
insular convolution
invitation and submission of tender
kaoliang oil
leglessly
limacella glioderma
local grid
lodgment
long-time fatigue strength
Loudia Ouolof
Medskog
micropluviometer
mileposting
millifarad
mimotope
mispractice
nacoma
neutron-irradiated bromobenzene
nitinols
octin
opinion poll
ordaining
orman
Orussidae
overelaborateness
overoxidations
p. and h.
parking and maintenance room in the bulldozer garage
passenger van
Patiala
picrotoxin
pins and needle
playing hardball
quarter-band filter
rachen
rated power of solar array
reflexa
roboticization
rotor forging
salesclerks
seagates
security breaches
seize with both hands
sharp ear hook
shawon
slowcoach
stress-rupture
sun-trap
synical
tag card reader
taking-up lever bush
the tragic
thread groove
tilia mofungensis chun et wong
typhoid spine
ultrafashiinable
ur(in)ometer
vapor hood
wo'n't
work anchor
yeley