exacting
exacting — 形容詞
- exactingpositive
- more exactingcomparative
- most exactingsuperlative
1. requiring a great amount of effort, careful attention, and high standards of acc
嚴苛；費心
要求極高且注重細節
requiring a great amount of effort, careful attention, and high standards of accuracy or quality — used to describe a task, standard, job, or set of conditions that leave little room for error or shortcuts.
Professor Okafor gave her students an exacting assignment that required weeks of library research.
Okafor 教授給學生出了一份嚴苛的作業，需要好幾週的圖書館研究才能完成。
exacting + assignment / task
The chef's exacting standards meant every plate was checked before leaving the kitchen.
主廚的嚴苛標準意味著每道菜在離開廚房前都要經過檢查。
exacting standards
Training for the Paris marathon was exacting, with daily runs of at least fifteen kilometres.
備戰巴黎馬拉松的訓練非常費心，每天至少跑十五公里。
Restoring the old temple required exacting work that combined carpentry, painting, and historical research.
修復那座古廟需要結合木工、繪畫和歷史研究的費心工作。
Yuki found the laboratory's safety protocols to be exacting but completely necessary.
Yuki 覺得實驗室的安全規範雖然嚴苛，但完全有必要。
- demanding
More general; implies requiring effort but not necessarily precision. 'Exacting' adds the nuance of detail-orientation.
- rigorous
Emphasises strictness and thoroughness; common in academic and scientific contexts.
- stringent
Emphasises strict rules or limits; used for regulations, standards, or controls.
- painstaking
Describes the care taken by a person rather than the nature of the task itself.
- undemanding
Requiring little effort or attention.
- lenient
Applied to standards or rules that are not strict.
用法筆記
More formal than 'demanding'. Frequently used with nouns like standard, requirement, task, work, condition, or test. Often implies precision and attention to detail rather than just physical effort.