Exacting

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exact

(a.) Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe.

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• I found her a furrowed, grey-haired woman, grave with solitude, stern with long affliction, irritable also, and perhaps exacting. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• They are not very exacting, after all. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• You were exacting, proud, punctilious, selfish. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• They took many things for granted that now we know need to be made the subject of the most exacting scientific study and the most careful adjustment. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Is Mr. Rochester an exacting, fastidious sort of man? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It was an inconvenient and exacting institution, as requiring everything in the universe to be filed down and fitted to it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I wish Society was not so arbitrary, I wish it was not so exacting--Bird, be quiet! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Mrs. Spirit's 'sir,' in addressing Mr. Bounderby, was a word of ceremony, rather exacting consideration for herself in the use, than honouring him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I come down here, for instance, and I find a mighty potentate exacting homage. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Enfin, elle sait, said he, half dissatisfied, and one cannot be fastidious or exacting under the circumstances. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I had learnt her whole character, which was without mystery or disguise: she was coquettish but not heartless; exacting, but not worthlessly selfish. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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