他是那种喜欢钻牛角尖的人。

He is the kind of person that enjoys splitting hairs.

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不要过于纠结于这些数学问题了，在计算机领域，你会很讨厌那些，在这上面钻牛角尖的人，但是对于那些，像循环这样的逻辑结构又是很有用的。

Okay, not to dwell too much on math because you can very quickly bore someone in computer science by dwelling too much on math but it's useful even for logical constructs as we'll see with loops.

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曼兹是前皇家海军潜艇指挥官，是个说话婉转，身材矮小的人，一点也不象报纸上说的钻牛角尖的怪人。

Menzies, a former Royal Navy submarine commander, is a soft-spoken and diminutive presence, not at all the obsessive eccentric he's been painted in the press.

youdao

Okay, not to dwell too much on math because you can very quickly bore someone in computer science by dwelling too much on math but it's useful even for logical constructs as we'll see with loops.

不要过于纠结于这些数学问题了,在计算机领域，你会很讨厌那些,在这上面钻牛角尖的人，但是对于那些,像循环这样的逻辑结构又是很有用的。

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