挑剔，找茬对…挑剔；在…寻找小瑕疵 To quibble about; detect petty flaws in.
挑剔的讼棍和吹毛求疵的辩护人——爱德蒙德·贝克；她那挑剔、吹毛求疵的批评；认为她的编辑是在没必要的吹毛求疵；挑剔的律师意见；对找碴的批评者失去了耐心。 caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders-Edmund Burke; her nagging and carping attack; thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking; a pettifogging lawyer's mind; had no patience with quibbling critics.
他写配乐音乐，这种音乐的声音是非常挑剔地计算出来的，然而又是自发产生的，并且极富想象力，听起来很舒服。 he writes extremely musical music, of which the sound is fastidiously calculated and yet agreeably spontaneous and imaginative.
一个人是什么时候开始收集关于自己的剪报的？是作为诗人从自己的第一本诗集受到周末报刊评论家的挑剔开始呢？还是作为政客从地方报上第一次得到一小条关于自己的报道开始呢？ When does a man start collecting cuttings on himself? The poet when his first slim volume gets pecked at by the week-end critics? The politician when he gets his first one-inch notice in the local rag?
雷德说，他发现大幅提高学费打折率的大学出现了毕业率降低的状况，就连在录取上非常挑剔的大学也是如此。 Mr. Redd says he found that universities that have sharply increased their tuition? discount rates have seen graduation rates fall, and that's true even among highly selective schools.
也不能把我们圣母院列入那类高大、剔透、饰满彩色玻璃窗和各种雕塑的教堂家族； Impossible to place our Cathedral in that other family of lofty, aerial churches,rich in painted windows and sculpture;
宣德林檎双鹂图剔彩捧盒 Carved Polychrome Lacquer Food Box with Chinese Pearleaf Crabapple and Orioles Made in the Xuande Reign
要通过完善政策和制度，加强教育和管理，移风易俗，努力改造落后的文化，努力防止和坚决抵制腐朽文化和各种错误思想观点对人们的侵蚀，逐步缩小和剔除它们借以滋生的土壤。 We should remold the backward cultures, prevent and resolutely resist the corrosion to people by decadent cultures and various erroneous ideological concepts, and gradually reduce and root out the soil on which they rely to breed, through improving our policy and system, strengthening education and management, and transforming social traditions.
这个记者挑剔出这个议员的错误。 The reporter tripped up the senator.
令人钦佩的年轻教授；列车运行得非常准；他的口味无可挑剔，身体也很健康。 an estimable young professor; trains ran with admirable precision; his taste was impeccable, his health admirable.
猪肉的肋骨部分，大部分肉被剔掉。 cut of pork from the rib section with most of the meat trimmed off.
猪的肋骨，肉大都被剔除。 a cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
在说我过于挑剔之前，你得先问问自己：你以身为新加坡人为荣吗？ Before you accuse me of being too tight in the pants, ask yourself this: Are you proud to be a Singaporean?
爱责骂、唠叨、挑剔、脾气暴躁的妇女。 a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman.
爱挑剔和责骂的性格。 a nature given to nagging or scolding.
剔除动物中的蹩脚货。 select from a group, as of animals.
非常仔细地挑剔和选择。 characterized by very careful or fastidious selection.
仔细检查……以便选出优品（或剔除劣品）；他检查过这个选段。 separate or remove; he picked over the selection.
我们在选择学生上很挑剔。 we choose our students very selectively.
出售被剔出来杀掉的动物以供食用 Sell the cull as meat
爱挑剔的倾向于进行严厉批判和找岔的 Inclined to judge severely and find fault.
她披着长可及地的开司米大披肩，两边露出绸子长裙的宽阔的镶边，她那紧贴在胸前藏手用的厚厚的暖手笼四周的褶裥都做得十分精巧，因此无论用什么挑剔的眼光来看，线条都是无可指摘的。 Her Indian shawl, with its point reaching down to the ground, gave free movement on either side to the flounced panels of her silk dress, while the thick muff, which hid her hands and which she kept pressed to her bosom, was encompassed by folds so skillfully managed that even the most demanding eye would have found nothing wanting in the lines of her figure.
泼妇似的妻子；挑剔的父母。 a shrewish wife; nagging parents.
对已安装的1亿个以太网产品节点来说，低培训成本及投资保护的承诺应该能抓住最挑剔的网络管理人员的注意力。 The promise of low training costs and investment protection for the 100 million nodes of installed Ethernet products should capture the attention of even the most skeptical network manager.
编辑将俚语从这篇文章中剔除。 The editor eliminated slang words from the essay.
别那么挑剔好不好！ Don't be so fussy!
别那么挑剔好不好。 Don't be so fussy!
用手术刀剔除体腔里（如子宫）的有害细胞组织。 surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette.
消除完全剔除；使化为乌有 To eliminate completely; annihilate.
我们要的是总的评价，我希望他不要太挑剔。 I wish he wouldn't nit-pick when all we want is a general overall appraisal.
挑剔的，苛求的通常指过分地注意或涉及细节和细微区别的；谨小慎微的或小题大作的 Attentive to or concerned with details or niceties, often excessively so; meticulous or fussy.
这里不妨略带一句，这钟楼的尖顶如箭穿空，是所有钟楼尖顶最大胆求新、最精雕细刻、最玲珑剔透的，透过其网扣似的塔锥，碧空一览无余。 Only here, this tower was the most audacious, the most open, the most ornamented spire of cabinet-maker's work that ever let the sky peep through its cone of lace.