pernickety

adj.

1. 爱挑剔的；吹毛求疵的
   worrying too much about unimportant details; showing this

1. ADJ-GRADED 爱挑剔的；吹毛求疵的
   If you describe someone as pernickety, you think that they pay too much attention to small, unimportant details.
   1. Customs officials can get extremely pernickety about things like that.
      海关官员可能会对那种东西极度吹毛求疵。

in AM, use 美国英语用 persnickety

1. Customs officials can get extremely pernickety about things like that.
   海关官员可能会对那种东西极度吹毛求疵。
2. Her pernickety style of managing was highly irritating for everyone.
   她吹毛求疵的管理风格使每个人都不舒服。
3. Foreign banks have become increasingly pernickety about opening accounts for Americans abroad.
   外国银行为海外的美国人开设账户变得越来越挑剔了。
4. He drowned the nation in a blizzard of pernickety policy measures to cut here, trim there, and tweak somewhere else.
   他让这个国家淹没在雪片般密集的琐碎政策措施之中这里砍一下，那里削一点，换个地方再挤一挤。
5. Trial registries sound like a pernickety piece of bureaucracy.
   实验注册听上去像一种麻烦的官僚作风。
6. As a writer, he is extremely pernickety about using words correctly.
   作为一名作家，他对正确遣词用字极为挑剔。

adj

1. characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details
   1. a persnickety job
   2. a persnickety school teacher

   Synonym:    persnickety