| 词汇 | hair-splitting |
| 释义 | hair-splittingWord family adjectivehairedhairlesshairlikehairyhair-raisingnounhairinesshairlessnesshairbandhairbrushhairclothhaircuthairdohairdresserhairdressinghairdryerhairlinehairnethairpiecehairpinhair shirthair slidehair-splittinghairsprayhairspringhairstreakhairstylehairstylisthair triggerhairwormhair ˈhair-splitting noun [uncountableU] CHOOSEwhen people pay too much attention to small differences and unimportant details, especially in an argument 〔尤指在争论中的〕过分纠缠于细枝末节，吹毛求疵 → split hairs at split1(8)Examples from the Corpus hair-splitting• This is the kind of disingenuous hair-splitting that gives politics a bad name.• But this is hair-splitting as an art form.• This, to those interested in the purpose of the insider-trading law, is lawyers' hair-splitting.• It is this kind of hair-splitting that gives politics a bad name. |
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