英语词汇“hair、splitting”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

hair-splitting

释义

▪ I. ˈhair-splitting, vbl. n.
The ‘splitting of hairs’; the making of over-nice distinctions.
1826Blackw. Edin. Mag. XX. 854/2 A sort of game at hair-splitting.1857–8Sears Athan. 15 Metaphysical hair-splitting could hardly show the difference.1874H. R. Reynolds John Bapt. v. i. 306 The hair-splitting of logical Casuistry.
▪ II. ˈhair-splitting, ppl. a.
That ‘splits hairs’; that makes over-nice distinctions, over-refining.
1820T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. p. cxxxv, The hair-splitting niceties of language.1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. xxxiv, Credit..for their hair-splitting ingenuity.1856Olmsted Slave States 121 It takes a more hair-splitting mind, than negroes are generally endowed with, to think otherwise.1877C. Geikie Christ lvii. (1879) 602 Subjects for dispute to hair-splitting theologians.

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