1.
He always finds fault with the choice of words whenever he speaks.
他说话总是爱挑字眼儿。
2.
Old Xiao thought that she was trying to pick faults and misinterpreting his meaning.
老萧觉得她是在挑字眼儿， 误会了自己的意思。
3.
These are words tinged with cynicism.
这是些有挑毛病意味的字眼。
4.
They were tripping one another up on slippery precedents.
他们根据极不可靠的判例，彼此挑眼儿。
5.
-You said priceless.You do not want to argue semantics with a Ph.D. candidate.
- 你刚才说过无价的.你不要挑博士生的字眼.
6.
He paused, his eyes flashing with a glint of humour and his brows shooting upward.
洋教师念到这儿，眼睛调皮地一亮，眉毛一挑，
7.
Charity was a cold and disagreeable word.
慈善是一个冷酷而令人厌烦的字眼儿，
8.
It is an abstract idea: a mere form of words.
它仅仅是一个抽象概念，空洞字眼儿。
9.
She's grown up a beauty too. Clever isn't the word for her!
"如今出挑的美人一样的模样儿,少说些有一万个心眼子."
10.
If any were perchance disposed to be jealous and critical before that, they experienced a change of heart, now.
在那以前，也许还有人嫉妒我，老爱挑鼻子挑眼儿，如今可就人人都革面洗心了。
11.
The speaker stopped for a while, stuck for the right word.
演讲者停顿了一会儿，一时找不到合适的字眼。
12.
Actually, " stolen" is too harsh a word. " Borrowed" is more accurate.
实际上,用“偷”这个字眼有点儿太重，“借用”更为准确。
13.
All the time he was oppressed by the consciousness that this carefulness of diction was making a booby of him.
他始终被这种感觉所苦恼着：这样小心翼翼地挑字眼，把自己搞得真象个呆子。
14.
A few days' cursory sightseeing left me- even with the most critical eye- only one simple word to describe the country: Good.
几天的走马观花下来，即使用最挑剔的眼光，我对新加坡的基本评价也还是一个简单的字：好。
15.
a quick eye for imperfections
能挑毛病的锐利的眼睛
16.
The boss is always crabbing about my work.
老板对我的工作总是横挑鼻子竖挑眼.
17.
But she caressed the last word until it might have been "darling."
不过她最后这个字眼时带有爱抚的口气，听起来像是在说"宝贝儿"了。
18.
-- I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.
“我怕这种冠冕堂皇的字眼儿，”斯蒂芬说，“这使我们遭到如此之不幸。”