fastidious
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美[f?'st?d??s]
- adj. 挑剔的；苛求的，難取悅的；（微生物等）需要復(fù)雜營(yíng)養(yǎng)地
英英釋意
- 1. giving and careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness;
- "a fastidious and incisive intellect"
- "fastidious about personal cleanliness"
- 2. having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures;
- "fastidious microorganisms"
- "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"