nice: implies fine discrimination in perception and evaluation: makes a ~ distinction between an artist and a craftsman.    (fine和nice互相解释，都表示精细fine discrimination，如精细陶瓷是fine china, fine gold纯金)    


dainty: suggests a tendency to reject what does not conform to one's delicate taste or sensibility: when camping, one cannot afford to be ~ about food.


fastidious: implies having very high and often capricious ethical, artistic, or social standards: a woman too ~ to tolerate messy little boys.   messy凌乱肮脏不整洁令人厌烦的


finicky: implies an affected, often exasperating fastidiousness: small children are usually ~ eaters.  （affected做作，即装模作样营造效果不真诚不自然to do something in order to impress others,如his foreign accent is just an affectation他的外国口音只是做作表演）


particular: implies an insistence that one's exacting standards be met: a customer who is very ~ about his fried eggs.  （exacting严苛即要求很严标准很高，必须很小心很精确implies rigor or sternness or extreme fastidiousness in the one demanding and extreme care and precision in the one who or thing that meets these demands，如an exacting employer一个严苛的雇主）


fussy: adds a connotation of querulousness to finicky and particular: very ~ about the starch in his shirts.   （querulous不停抱怨的=complain,如don't be querulous like a baby不要像小孩一样不停抱怨）      starch浆衣服床单等用的淀粉浆、淀粉


squeamish: suggests an oversensitive or prudish readiness to be nauseated, disgusted, or offended: ~ about erotic art.  (prudish正经的easily shocked by things relating to sex, 如I'm not prudish but I think these photographs are obscene我不是一副正经的人，但我认为这是淫秽照片）  (erotic色情的性欲的involving sexual feeling, pleasure, or desire，如erotic art/fantasy色情艺术，性幻想,注意是sy不是cy)


nice精细: 指观察评价时精细鉴别，dainty挑剔: 表示拒绝不符合自己口味的东西，fastidious标准高挑剔: 指有很高的标准，finicky讲究挑剔: 指做作让人不耐烦地讲究，particular挑剔: 指坚持自己的严苛标准，fussy挑剔抱怨: 增加了抱怨的含义，squeamish易被冒犯: 表示过度敏感正经动辄被恶心冒犯


记忆方法: 1）首字母ndffpfs排列成NDFFSFP你的发福是肥胖<==挑剔

         2）练习一下

         3）挑剔的意思是要求严苛mean having or showing exacting standards.首字母ndffpfs排列成NDFFSFP你的发福是肥胖<==挑剔