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单词 fussy
释义
fussy
adjective
disapproving
uk
/ˈfʌs.i/us
/ˈfʌs.i/

fussyadjective(NOT EASILY SATISFIED)

C2
noteasilysatisfied, or having very highstandardsaboutparticularthings:
过分挑剔的；难以满足的
All mychildrenwere fussyeaters.我所有的孩子都挑食。
He's so fussyaboutthehouse- everything has to beabsolutelyperfect.他对房子太挑剔了——所有东西都必须绝对完美。
"Why am I stillsingle?" "You're too fussy - that'syourproblem!"“我怎么还是单身？”“你太挑剔了―这就是你的问题！”
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Wanting everything to be right
  • anally
  • anally retentive
  • choosy
  • cover all the basesidiom
  • dot the i's and cross the t'sidiom
  • finicky
  • fuss
  • fussbudget
  • fussily
  • fussiness
  • pedant
  • pedantic
  • pedantically
  • pedantry
  • perfectionism
  • punctiliously
  • punctiliousness
  • purism
  • purist
  • stickler
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fussyadjective(DECORATED TOO MUCH)

having too muchdecorationand too manysmalldetails, in a way that is notstylish:
过分装饰的，过于繁琐的
They've got thosecurtainsthattieup withbigbows- they're a littlebitfussy for mytaste.他们那些窗帘都打着大蝴蝶结——在我看来装饰得有点花哨。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not attractive to look at
  • back end
  • be no oil paintingidiom
  • be not much to look atidiom
  • bleakly
  • bleakness
  • chintzy
  • excrescence
  • gracelessly
  • hatchet-faced
  • have a face like the back end of a busidiom
  • hideous
  • hideousness
  • homeliness
  • pretty
  • pretty-pretty
  • reptilian
  • scrappily
  • scrappy
  • vulgarity
  • vulgarly
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fussyadjective(BABY)

US
A fussybabyisunhappyordifficulttoplease:
（婴孩）难以取悦的，难缠的
Itseemsthat thebabyis always fussy at dinnertime.那个小孩好像在吃晚饭时总是很难缠。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Feeling sad and unhappy
  • a dog's lifeidiom
  • angsty
  • be cut upidiom
  • be down in the mouthidiom
  • be in a funkidiom
  • be in bitsidiom
  • distraught
  • distressed
  • dog
  • doleful
  • lovelorn
  • lovesick
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • lugubriously
  • wistfully
  • woe
  • woe is meidiom
  • woebegone
  • woeful
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Related words

fussily
fussiness

Idiom

I'm not fussy/fussed
(Definition offussyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

fussy| American Dictionary

fussy
adjective
us
/ˈfʌs·i/

fussyadjective(NOT SATISFIED)

disapproving
noteasilysatisfiedorpleased;worriedorcarefulaboutunimportantdetails:
She’s really fussy about who she goes out with.
Kevin’s a fussyeater.

fussyadjective(TOO DECORATED)

having too muchdecorationor too manydetails:
My newdressissophisticatedbut not too fussy.
(Definition offussyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffussy

fussy
If you wear your own clothes, try to make them smart and not toofussy.
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Perhapsfussywas simply a straightforward term for the small-scaled, repetitive elements encrusting that proposal.
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Such children are expected to be lessfussyand, thus, less irritable than other children.
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When we combined paternal and maternal reports into a single construct reflectingfussy/ difficult temperament, this association was no longer significant.
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Children are irritable andfussywith the teacher with no apparent cause.
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In cases when the infant was asleep or veryfussy, visits were rescheduled.
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The modern arbiters of garden taste have rejected the nineteenth-century suburban middle-class style asfussyand busy.
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The present results suggest that alcoholic fathers tend to report their infants as being morefussyor difficult compared to those in the control group.
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Virtually every element of his appearance is ridiculous: filthy, garish,fussy, and obviously cheap.
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If something as trivial as a sailing trip can generate obligations, why do we have to be sofussyabout the goal of the joint activity of law?
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Further, although maternal reports of infant temperament were associated with lower infant positive affect during interactions with father, few relationships emerged between difficult orfussytemperament and parent-infant interactions.
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His later texts have a strong streak of parody and even black humour, which sits oddly with his experimental verse forms and hisfussyattention to stage action.
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The sympathetically reactive, perhaps irritable orfussyneonate may either gather more attentive caregiving on one hand or may receive less affiliative caregiving on the other.
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The latent variables for prediction of infant attachment security with father included fathers' alcohol problems, fathers' depression, fathers' antisocial behavior, family conflict, and infantfussy/difficult temperament.
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The tourists, i.e. the consumers of tourist products, book their holidays increasingly late and are becoming increasinglyfussy.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
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