That they exist is a proof that American ideals are not the tawdry pretenses they are so often accused of being.

或许这类人的存在,正证明了美国式理想并非无可挑剔,或者说它也在经受着现实的折磨，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And not be too critical or expect that you should be at a very high level when you're just beginning.

不要太挑剔，也不要奢望自己刚开始的时候就可以达到很高的水平。

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Other cultures are more picky and they don't talk to their children until their children themselves are talking.

其他文化则更加挑剔,直到孩子自己能够开口说话,他们才会和孩子讲话

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And nobody quibbles because nobody speaks Latin so it is neutral for everybody.

没有人再挑剔了,因为没有人说拉丁语,就对所有人都是中立的了。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So in a sense the fact that there's a more critical screen, there's more of a careful thought process, the fact that customers are pickier with their money today, all of that really is a chance to make people better.

所以实际上，如果环境更为挑剔，人们的构思过程就会更为严谨细致，现在的消费者花每一分钱都精打细算，这其中产生的是让人们生活的更好的商机。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

I'm convinced that it's the reader's job to apply the same degree of critical scrutiny, a kind of Galilean critical scrutiny, to the image of Providence that will be elaborated, as you will see, at extraordinary length in Book Three of Paradise Lost.

我相信，把同等程度的细致的挑剔的观察,一种伽利略式的吹毛求疵的观察精神，运用到对将要被详细说明的天命的形象上去，是读者该做的事，你们往后会发现，卷三里洋洋洒洒写了很多。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

W -W -W And now pedagogically, all these things, -W, -W, -W, these are essentially telling GCC to be really nit-picky.

现在教学上用的这些东西，这些本质上说明GCC是很挑剔的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I'm a little bit more selective with that

我对角色比较挑剔。

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