critical: may imply an effort to see a thing clearly and truly in order to judge or value it fairly: a ~ essay on modern drama.


hypercritical: suggests a tendency to lose objectivity and to judge by unreasonably strict standards: petty, ~ disparagement of other people's success.


faultfinding: implies persistent, picayune, often ill-informed criticism, and a querulous or exacting temperament: a ~ theatre reviewer.   (picayune:不值钱琐碎5分硬币不重要)


captious: suggests a readiness to detect trivial faults or raise objections on trivial grounds: no point is too minute for this ~ critic to overlook.


carping: implies an ill-natured or perverse finding of faults: the ~ editorial writer soon wearied readers.


censorious: implies a dispositionto be severely critical and condemnATORY: the ~ tone of the papalencyclical. (注意是censorious有i)


critical批判性: 指清楚准确的观察，以正确地(fairly公平)判断评价(~ thinking批判性思维)， hypercritical苛刻: 表示有失客观(tendency to lose objectivity)过分严格的批评，faultfinding: 指琐屑不断或不知甚解(ill-informed所知不多的)的批评，反映爱抱怨好强求的性格，captious吹毛求疵: 喜欢找小毛病或提小反对，carping挑刺: 非善意反常地挑毛病，censorious严厉批评的: 表示严厉批评谴责的性格

记忆方法：1）首字母CHFCCC中的C想成层Ceng，FH想成防护FangHu，即 4层防护<==防备不合理批评


         2）批评的意思是喜欢挑别人的弱点缺陷mean inclined to look for and point out faults or defects.