She haggles, she niggles, she wears our patience down with her repetitions and her prolixities.

她讨价还价，吹毛求疵，她的重复和冗长耗尽了我们的耐心。

People who are critical are usually looking for some kind of reaction and when you ignore them, they're likely to drop it.

吹毛求疵的人通常会寻找某种反，忽视他们时，他们很可能也会放弃他们的挑剔。

I don't like people who are too critical about everything.

我喜欢对每件事都太吹毛求疵的人。

Picky glaciologists might argue that what Mr Norphel is creating are not, strictly speaking, glaciers.

吹毛求疵的冰河学家们也许会认为诺菲尔先生并没有造出严格意义上的冰川。

This may seem like a nitpicky semantic point, but it's physically true.

这似乎是一个吹毛求疵的语义点，但它在物理上是正确的。

I'm sorry. I shouldn't be so critical.

对起 我该吹毛求疵的。

Do you know someone who's a nitpicker?

认一个吹毛求疵的人吗？

Commissioners were treated to more than seven hours of righteous abuse, with callers lining up to deliver their own personal blends of fact-based faultfinding and creatively profane insults, through which the officials could only sit, impassive and professional.

委员们受到了长达7个多小时的、以正义之名的虐待，打电话的人排着队，发表他们自己的基于事实的吹毛求疵和创造性的侮辱，官员们只能坐在那里无动于衷。

Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty; he looked at her without admiration at the ball, and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise.

说到达西先生，他开头并认为她怎么漂亮；他在跳舞会上望着她的时候，并没有带着丝毫的爱慕之意，第二次见面的时候，他也吹毛求疵的眼光去看待她。

Until this moment he had completely forgotten the magazine Kingsley had handed Mr Weasley to give to Sirius, but it must have been this edition of The Quibbler.

到这一刻他还是记得肯斯雷要韦斯莱先生带给小天狼星的杂志，但是肯定是这一期的吹毛求疵。

Then he went into the jewelry store to buy a pearl necklace—or perhaps only a pair of cuff buttons—rid of my provincial squeamishness forever.

随后他走进那家珠宝店去买一串珍珠项链——或者也许只是一副袖扣 ——永远摆脱了我这乡下佬吹毛求疵的责难。

But either way, the point of the quote is that this out-of-touch aristocrat didn't understand the realities of life as a peasant, so maybe that's a semantic quibble.

但管怎样，这句话的重点是，这位脱离现实的贵族并了解农民的生活现实，所以这可能是一种语义上的吹毛求疵。

Ferdinand E. Warren, a commercial artist, used this technique to win the good will of a petulant, scolding buyer of art.

费迪南德·E。沃伦从事商业艺术设计，曾运上述技巧赢得了一位脾气古怪、总爱吹毛求疵的买家的好感。

It is better to be excited about your new chapter than to unleash vitriol on colleagues who were unkind or censorious over the years.

与其对那些多年来甚友善或吹毛求疵的同事大加抨击，如为自己的人生新篇章高兴。

When she gets excited, those old shrills keep coming back. I can't...-...stand those who carp and criticize.

她激动的时候，她原本尖锐的嗓音就又回来了。我无法...-...忍受那些吹毛求疵、一味指责的人。

For a president who runs hot and cold on nearly all of his advisers, private carping may not mean that much.

对于一个对几乎所有顾问都忽冷忽热的总统来说，私下里的吹毛求疵或许并那么较真。

Nit-picking micro-managers are deeply annoying but they are nowhere near as bad as people who don't have any standards.

吹毛求疵的微观管理者固然非常令人讨厌，但他们远如没有任何标准的人糟糕。

" The hair-splitters up there will welcome any point, " Paul said.

“那些吹毛求疵的人会欢迎任何观点，”保罗说。

Yeah, like what level of pedantry are we going for here?

是啊，咱们这儿到底要追求哪种程度的吹毛求疵呢？

And that's mostly like second-rate carping anyways.

那大多只是些二流的吹毛求疵罢了。