Stubborn and self-centered. Nitpick. Mentally unstable.
(頑固で自己中心的。人のあら探しが得意で精神的に不安定な人が多いでしょう。)
フジテレビ「信長協奏曲」終わりの信長ニュースにて、信長占いより。織田信長と同じ誕生日の人の性格として出てきた文w
- 単語として、nitpickだけ初めて聞いたのでこれを機に覚えたい。nitpick=「つまらぬことにくよくよする、つまらぬあら探しをする」( to find faults in details that are not important/to criticize for tiny faults that are usually of little importance/to criticize by focusing on minute details/to be critical of inconsequential details; niggle ※inconsequential:とるに足らない ※niggle:あら探しばかりする/to be excessively concerned with or critical of inconsequential details)辞書では基本的には動詞(自・他)として記載されているけれど、Dictionary.comではこの形のまま、名詞や形容詞としても載っている。
- Must you nitpick all the time?
- Her husband nitpicks about everything: from how she puts the plates away to how she files the bills
- 辞書では名詞・形容詞形のnitpickingのほうがたくさん載っている。(nitpicking: when someone argues about small unimportant details or tries to find small mistakes in something/the act of arguing about details that are not important or criticizing small mistakes that are not important/the habit of finding small mistakes in someone's work or paying too much attention to small details that are not important)
- Soames was getting impatient with his daughter's constant nitpicking.
- She was tired of all the nitpicking and wanted to get on with the project.
(『信長協奏曲』はアニメ化&ドラマ化が決まる前から読んでるけど、めちゃくちゃ面白いよ!)