I'm sorry. I shouldn't be so critical.

不起 我不应该吹毛求疵的。

Do you know someone who's a nitpicker?

你认识一个吹毛求疵的人吗？

I don't like people who are too critical about everything.

我不喜欢每件事都太吹毛求疵的人。

This may seem like a nitpicky semantic point, but it's physically true.

这似乎是一个吹毛求疵的语义点，它在物理上是正确的。

Picky glaciologists might argue that what Mr Norphel is creating are not, strictly speaking, glaciers.

吹毛求疵的冰河也许会认为诺菲尔先生并没有造出严格意义上的冰川。

Nit-picking micro-managers are deeply annoying but they are nowhere near as bad as people who don't have any standards.

吹毛求疵的微观管理者固然非常令人讨厌，他远不如没有任何标准的人糟糕。

" The hair-splitters up there will welcome any point, " Paul said.

“那些吹毛求疵的人会欢迎任何观点，”保罗说。

The carping carried immediate political consequences for Democrats.

这种吹毛求疵的行为党带来了直接的政治后果。

But Twitter is overrun with nitpickers.

推特上充斥着吹毛求疵的人。

Merrell executives complained that stubborn and nit-picking Kelsey was the problem, not thalidomide.

Merrell 的高管抱怨说，固执和吹毛求疵的凯尔西才是问题所在，而不是沙利度胺。

Ferdinand E. Warren, a commercial artist, used this technique to win the good will of a petulant, scolding buyer of art.

费迪南德·E。沃伦从事商业艺术设计，曾运用上述技巧赢得了一位脾气古怪、总爱吹毛求疵的买的好感。

Other critics, also his cronies began to criticize his criticism.

其他评论，也是他的老朋友开始吹毛求疵他的评论。

People who are critical are usually looking for some kind of reaction and when you ignore them, they're likely to drop it.

吹毛求疵的人通常会寻找某种反应，当你忽视他时，他很可能也会放弃他的挑剔。

But what about the nit-picker, here?

是这里的吹毛求疵者呢？

She haggles, she niggles, she wears our patience down with her repetitions and her prolixities.

她讨价还价，吹毛求疵，她的重复和冗长耗尽了我的耐心。

When she gets excited, those old shrills keep coming back. I can't...-...stand those who carp and criticize.

当她激动的时候，她原本尖锐的嗓音就又回来了。我无法...-...忍受那些吹毛求疵、一味指责的人。

He walked round to the other side, examined my work for a while, muttering to himself in a fault-finding tone.

他绕到另一边， 端详了一会儿我的作品，用吹毛求疵的语气自言自语。

When a discussion reaches this point, it becomes a battle of nit-picking and of low blows.

讨论到了这个地步，就变成了一场吹毛求疵、互相打击的战斗。

For a president who runs hot and cold on nearly all of his advisers, private carping may not mean that much.

于一个几乎所有顾问都忽冷忽热的总统来说，私下里的吹毛求疵或许并不用那么较真。

It is better to be excited about your new chapter than to unleash vitriol on colleagues who were unkind or censorious over the years.

与其那些多年来不甚友善或吹毛求疵的同事大加抨击，不如为自己的人生新篇章高兴。