nitpicker 的意思
挑剔者; 吹毛求疵的人
nitpicker 的词源
nitpicker(n.)
还有 nit-picker,意为“吹毛求疵的批评者”,大约在1951年首次出现,可能早在1946年就已使用。这是一个比喻用法,据信最初源自军事行话;参见 nit (n.) 和 pick (v.)。
Two long-time Pentagon stand-bys are fly-speckers and nit-pickers. The first of these nouns refers to people whose sole occupation seems to be studying papers in the hope of finding flaws in the writing, rather than making any effort to improve the thought or meaning; nit-pickers are those who quarrel with trivialities of expression and meaning, but who usually end up without making concrete or justified suggestions for improvement. [Collier's, Nov. 24, 1951]
两个长期以来在五角大楼流行的词是 fly-speckers 和 nit-pickers。第一个词指的是那些似乎只专注于研究文件,期望找到写作中的缺陷,而不是努力改善思想或意义的人;而 nit-pickers 则是那些对表达和意义的琐碎之处斤斤计较的人,但他们通常最终并没有提出具体或合理的改进建议。[《科利尔周刊》,1951年11月24日]
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