深度学习
captious (CAP shus) Based on the Latin word for “seizure,” this adjective means “marked by a tendency to find and point out (catch) trivial faults.”
- The captious English teacher corrected his student for saying, “It is me” instead of “It is I.”
- “It is impossible to work for such a captious man,” wailed Mary Ann. “He makes me type everything over twice before he is satisfied.”
——摘自《Fiske WordPower: The Most Effective System for Building a Vocabulary That Gets Results Fast》
机器翻译，仅供参考
capitous（CAP-shus）这个形容词基于拉丁语中“癫痫发作”的意思，意思是“有发现和指出（抓住）琐碎错误的倾向。”
挑剔的英语老师纠正学生说“是我”而不是“是我。”
“为这样一个挑剔的人工作是不可能的，”玛丽·安哀叹道，“他让我把所有的东西都打两遍，然后他才满意。”
