词汇 | fussy |
释义 | fussy adjective disapprovinguk /ˈfʌs.i/ us /ˈfʌs.i/ fussyadjective (NOT EASILY SATISFIED)C2 not easily satisfied, or having very high standards about particular things: 过分挑剔的;难以满足的 All my children were fussy eaters.我所有的孩子都挑食。 fussy aboutHe's so fussy about the house - everything has to be absolutely perfect.他对房子太挑剔了——所有东西都必须绝对完美。 "Why am I still single?" "You're too fussy - that's your problem!"“我怎么还是单身?”“你太挑剔了―这就是你的问题!” Wanting everything to be right anally anally retentive choosy cover all the basesidiom dot the i's and cross the t'sidiom fuss fussbudget fussily fussiness fusspot pedant pedantic pedantically pedantry perfectionism punctilious punctiliously punctiliousness purism purist fussyadjective (DECORATED TOO MUCH)having too much decoration and too many small details, in a way that is not stylish: 过分装饰的,过于繁琐的 They've got those curtains that tie up with big bows - they're a little bit fussy for my taste.他们那些窗帘都打着大蝴蝶结——在我看来装饰得有点花哨。 Not attractive to look at back end be no oil paintingidiom be not much to look atidiom bleakly bleakness gracelessly have a face like the back end of a busidiom hideous hideousness homeliness putridly reptilian scrappily scrappy stolid unpretty unshapely unsightly vulgarity vulgarly fussyadjective (BABY)US A fussy baby is unhappy or difficult to please: (婴孩)难以取悦的,难缠的 It seems that the baby is always fussy at dinnertime.那个小孩好像在吃晚饭时总是很难缠。 Feeling sad and unhappy a long faceidiom abjection angsty be cut upidiom be down in the mouthidiom be in a funkidiom dismayed displeased dissatisfied distraught distressed lonely lonesome lovelorn lovesick wistful wistfully woe woe is meidiom woebegone Related wordsfussily fussiness IdiomI'm not fussy/fussed fussy | American Dictionaryfussy adjective us/ˈfʌs·i/ fussyadjective (NOT SATISFIED)disapproving not easily satisfied or pleased; worried or careful about unimportant details: She’s really fussy about who she goes out with. Kevin’s a fussy eater. fussyadjective (TOO DECORATED)having too much decoration or too many details: My new dress is sophisticated but not too fussy. Examples of fussyfussy If you wear your own clothes, try to make them smart and not too fussy. Perhaps fussy was simply a straightforward term for the small-scaled, repetitive elements encrusting that proposal. Such children are expected to be less fussy and, thus, less irritable than other children. When we combined paternal and maternal reports into a single construct reflecting fussy/ difficult temperament, this association was no longer significant. Children are irritable and fussy with the teacher with no apparent cause. In cases when the infant was asleep or very fussy, visits were rescheduled. The modern arbiters of garden taste have rejected the nineteenth-century suburban middle-class style as fussy and busy. The present results suggest that alcoholic fathers tend to report their infants as being more fussy or difficult compared to those in the control group. Virtually every element of his appearance is ridiculous: filthy, garish, fussy, and obviously cheap. If something as trivial as a sailing trip can generate obligations, why do we have to be so fussy about the goal of the joint activity of law? Further, although maternal reports of infant temperament were associated with lower infant positive affect during interactions with father, few relationships emerged between difficult or fussy temperament and parent-infant interactions. His later texts have a strong streak of parody and even black humour, which sits oddly with his experimental verse forms and his fussy attention to stage action. The sympathetically reactive, perhaps irritable or fussy neonate may either gather more attentive caregiving on one hand or may receive less affiliative caregiving on the other. The latent variables for prediction of infant attachment security with father included fathers' alcohol problems, fathers' depression, fathers' antisocial behavior, family conflict, and infant fussy/difficult temperament. The tourists, i.e. the consumers of tourist products, book their holidays increasingly late and are becoming increasingly fussy. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English See all examples of fussy These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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