fastidious [fæˈstɪdiəs]
i. adj. having high and often capricious standards: difficult to please 难以取悦的/苛求的
ii. adj. reflecting a meticulous, sensitive, or demanding attitude: nice 一丝不苟的/细致的
s. squeamish, exacting, captious, hypercritical
a. cursory, hasty, perfunctory
英英解析:
If you want to describe a person who insists on perfection or pays much attention to food, clothing and cleanliness, the right word is fastidious.
Fastidious is a funny-sounding adjective from the Latin fastidium "loathing" that has several equally strange-sounding synonyms — persnickety, fussbudgety, finicky and punctilious. Fussy and hard to please will also do the trick. Fastidious is occasionally used as a compliment to describe someone whose attention to detail gives them good organizing abilities, but it is usually used as a disapproving term.
词源
fastidious 挑剔的,讲究的,苛求的,来自拉丁语fastus, 傲慢,骄傲,蔑视。其原义为骄傲的,过于骄傲的。并引申相关词义。
例句
1. Be particularly fastidious about washing your hands before touching food.
接触食物前尤其对洗手不能有半点马虎。
2. Everything was planned in fastidious detail.
样样都一丝不苟地计划好了。
3. She is too fastidious about her food or clothing.
她爱讲究吃穿.
4. He was fastidious about his appearance.
他非常讲究仪表。
助记
just like ... If your boss is a demanding person he may not leave to you time to eat. Fasting is tedious. So your boss is fastidious.