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

我不喜欢对每件事都太吹毛求疵。

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

吹毛求疵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语义点，但它在物理上是正确。

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

对不起 我不应该吹毛求疵。

Do you know someone who's a nitpicker?

你认识一个吹毛求疵？

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

当时候，原本尖锐嗓音就又回来了。我无法...-...忍受那些吹毛求疵、一味指责。

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

吹毛求疵微观管理者固然非常令讨厌，但他们远不如没有任何标准糟糕。

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总统来说，私下里吹毛求疵或许并不用那么较真。

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，曾运用上述技巧赢得了一位脾气古怪、总爱吹毛求疵买家好感。

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

“那些吹毛求疵会欢迎任何观点，”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吹毛求疵呢？

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

不过那大多只是些二流吹毛求疵罢了。

We nitpick at the aesthetic of the tap from which our clean drinking water flows.

我们对饮用水龙头外观吹毛求疵。

At the end of the day, cheers to the nitpickers.

最终，向那些吹毛求疵致敬。

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

讨价还价，吹毛求疵，重复和冗长耗尽了我们耐心。

The carping carried immediate political consequences for Democrats.

这种吹毛求疵行为对民主党带来了直接政治后果。

Or do you want to be the nit-picker, downer, who thinks everything is not so good?

或者你想当那个吹毛求疵、扫兴，认为一切都不那么好？

But what about the nit-picker, here?

但是这里吹毛求疵怎么办？

So we're in the nitpick backlash.

所以我们陷入了吹毛求疵反噬。

It is just, it is censorious.

这仅仅是，它是吹毛求疵。