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10. fastidious：它有两层意思(1)giving careful attention to detail; hard to please 因为要求高而难以取悦。A fastidious person has high standards but is more concerned with quality than speed.(2)挑食的 fastidious <> voracious (贪吃的)，greedy，gluttonous
稍微区别以下meticulous， careful， painstaking， scrupulous， fastidious， punctilious这些形容词都指对所有方面或细节表示注意或以这种注意为特征的。
(1)Meticulous ：stresses extreme, sometimes exaggerated care for small details:
Meticulous 强调极度的，有时是过分的对于小细节的关心：
“He had throughout been almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities” “他一直对他的业务手续表现出几乎是担心一样的极度细心”
(2)Careful suggests the exercise of attention, circumspection, and solicitude:
Careful 意味着运用注意力、细心和关心：
A careful examination of the antique bronze showed it to be a forgery.
对古董铜像的仔细检查证明它是件赝品。
(3)Painstaking means extremely careful:
Painstaking 意味着极度细心：
The skillful repair of fine lace entails slow and painstaking work.
对精致花边的熟练修补需要缓慢而极度细心的工作。
(4)Scrupulous suggests care prompted by conscience:
Scrupulous 表示出于良知的细心：
“Cynthia was scrupulous in her efforts to give no trouble” (Winston Churchill).
“辛西娅非常细心地极力不带来任何麻烦” (温斯顿·丘吉尔)。
(5)Fastidious implies concern, often excessive, for the requirements of taste:
Fastidious 表示的是出于品味要求的，通常是过分的关心：
“Your true lover of literature is never fastidious” (Robert Southey).
“真正的文学爱好者从不挑剔” (罗伯特·骚塞)。
(6)Punctilious specifically applies to strict, exact attention to minute details of conduct:
Punctilious 专指对极微小行为细节的严格的、精细的注意：
“The more unpopular an opinion is, the more necessary is it that the holder should be somewhat punctilious in his observance of conventionalities generally” (Samuel Butler).
“一个观点越不受欢迎，这个观点的持有者越应谨小慎微地观察习俗惯例” (塞缪尔·巴特勒)
这些单词非常重要，我们看以下这些题目，哪些是fastidious的情景，哪些不是
(1)Though a hummingbird weighs less than one ounce, all species of hummingbirds are__ eaters, maintaining very high body temperatures and__ many times their weight in food each day.
(A) voracious, consuming
(B) fastidious, discarding
(C) hasty, locating
(D) prolific, producing
(E) delicate, storing
(2)MacDougall’s former editors remember him as a___ man whose___ and exhaustive reporting was worth the trouble.
A. domineering, wearisome
B. congenial, pretentious
C. popular, supercilious
D. fastidious, garbled
E. cantankerous, meticulous
这道题难度比较大，很多同学可能即便选了E，也不知道为什么选E，至于这道题的解题方法填空老师会讲，在这里我们看以下为什么D是不正确的，已经说了fastidious是对高品质的追求而引起的相当苛刻的，所以不是贬义。在这里fastidious的人绝对不会容忍garbled(篡改的)reporting的。
这里的trouble就是指这个人因为cantankerous(好争吵)而引起的trouble，但是这个人的仔细还有彻底完工的精神是 worth the trouble(值得这个麻烦的)
Cantankerous (cant,黑话+ank，anger生气)所以说是好争吵的
(3)The actor was noted for his___ behavior: he quickly became irritated if his every whim was not immediately satisfied.
(A) fastidious
(B) sedulous
(C) vindictive
(D) petulant
(E) mercenary
这道题的错误率也非常的高，理解好了fastidious就不会错选它的。
Petulant：unreasonably ill-tempered。看一下这道题的意境，就很容易选了。
adj. 谨慎的
