我认为现在不是对这份报告的措辞吹毛求疵的时候。

I don't think this is the time to cavil at the wording of the report.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

对不相干的事情一直大肆吹毛求疵。

A lot of nit-picking was going on about irrelevant things.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

我会挑剔细节，而且对某些事情我会相当吹毛求疵。

I can get down to nitpicking detail, I am pretty fussy about certain things.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

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。

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