吹毛求疵

Don't look a gift-horse in the mouth when they offer you any present .

请你不要对他们送给你的任何礼物吹毛求疵。

After Gowing left, Lupin came in, and in his anxiety to please Daisy Mutlar, carped at and criticised the arrangements, and, in fact, disapproved of everything, including our having asked our old friend Cummings, who, he said, would look in evening-dress like a green-grocer engaged to wait, and who must not be surprised if Daisy took him for one.

高英离开后，卢宾回来了。急于要取悦戴西·玛特勒小姐，他对聚会的安排非常挑剔，到处吹毛求疵。事实上，他对一切都不满意，包括我们邀请老朋友卡明斯，他说卡明斯穿上夜礼服就像等着卖菜的小贩一样，如果戴西真把他当成菜贩子大家不要感到惊奇。

Eg: Terry is a real hairsplitter.

特里是个吹毛求疵的人。

Terry is a real hairsplitter,If you say the train arrived just on time,he'll say it was at least thirty second late.

特里是个吹毛求疵的人。如果你说火车刚好准时到达，他会说火车至少迟了三十秒。

Fortunately, the night manager was neither a hairsplitter nor a fool

好在这位夜班经理既不是吹毛求疵的人，也不是脓包。

My attack is not based on quibbles about rebuilding methods or hairsplitting about fashions in design .

我的抨击并不是以关于改建手法的模棱两可的双关语为基础，也不是对设计的时尚吹毛求疵。

This is hairsplitting.

这是在吹毛求疵。

HAMlet:I AM but mad north - north - west:when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.

基于对完美的要求，我们非常的挑剔吹毛求疵，反反复复、斤斤计较，因为我们一向坚持最好的！

I told her that yes, I had been, years ago, though I was more one of those hard-driving, high-achieving people afflicted with anxiety and obsessiveness than the stay-in-bed, hopeless-and-gloomy type. In fact, I told her I was now on an antidepressant that had helped me enormously.

我说有，以前有过，尽管我是那些吹毛求疵，要求过高的人之一，比那些一天到晚赖在床上，日子无望的人有更多的烦恼。

Besides that, Americans seem to be less persnickety about their housecleaning—especially in areas that nobody sees.

此外，美国人似乎对於家庭的清洁比较不那麼吹毛求疵了——特别是对那些没有人看到的地方。

Methods: Five patients with parkinsonism or dystonia were assigned to general anesthesia using an modified endotracheal tube.

本实验依照人体实验之相关规定进行，五位患有帕金森氏症或肌张力异常的病人接受神经立体定位手术。

If you can benefit from this book, it is our honour.

如果您能从本书获益，这将是我们的荣幸。