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exacting

/ig-zak-ting/US // ɪgˈzæk tɪŋ //UK // (ɪɡˈzæktɪŋ) //

严格的,严格,严谨,严谨的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : rigid or severe in demands or requirements: an exacting teacher.
    • : requiring close application or attention: an exacting task.
    • : given to or characterized by exaction; extortionate.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.demanding

Examples

  • Both the IRA and the British military are portrayed here with an exacting lack of sentimentality.

  • The pair, who are exhibiting together in Fred Schnider Gallery’s “Material Reality,” make elaborate, exacting assemblages.

  • She offers to teach Teichner the exacting steps involved in the time-consuming preparation for administering the meds.

  • Viewed through the exacting lens of an engineer, Beckwith was struck by agriculture’s inefficiencies.

  • He was known to be a tough and exacting boss who regularly and relentlessly drilled his analysts to prepare them for client meetings.

  • Qualification is exacting, and a majority of the teams that do qualify are from the West.

  • Brazier was feared for her ferocious tempers and respected for her exacting standards.

  • Munro is a great writer; a wise writer; a free and brave, exacting, transformative, generous, and profoundly discreet writer.

  • But exacting concessions from the mediator is not the point.

  • But legal justice, no less moral or exacting, is something else.

  • He knew his control was not equal to the task; he would betray himself; the rôle was too exacting.

  • Mr. Carr, who had his eyes on the exacting baby, shook his head, and intimated that he was really unable to understand her.

  • Marriage, and later the birth of his son had softened Armand Aubigny's imperious and exacting nature greatly.

  • At the end of the concerto the applause was generous enough to satisfy the most exacting virtuoso.

  • As they get accustomed to her, they want to rule her, and the more one gives them the more exacting they become.

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