neat freak
neat freak — 名詞
1. a person who needs everything around them to stay perfectly clean and in order,
潔癖者
凡事要求整齊清潔的人
a person who needs everything around them to stay perfectly clean and in order, and who feels uncomfortable when anything is out of place.
Christopher is such a neat freak that he wipes the counter after every coffee.
Christopher 是個極端的潔癖者，每喝一杯咖啡就要擦一次流理台。
informal noun describing an obsessively tidy person
Living with a neat freak meant Ishaan had to fold his socks before bed each night.
和潔癖者住在一起，Ishaan 每晚睡前都得先把襪子折好。
collocation: living with a neat freak
The new flatmate turned out to be a neat freak who labelled every jar.
新室友原來是個潔癖者，連每一個罐子都貼上標籤。
Emre called himself a neat freak because crooked picture frames really bothered him.
Emre 說自己是潔癖者，因為畫框歪一點點就讓他渾身不對勁。
self-description: call oneself a neat freak
As a neat freak, Soraya kept her desk so clear that colleagues joked nobody actually worked there.
身為潔癖者，Soraya 的桌面清空到同事開玩笑說那裡根本沒人在工作。
- total neat freak
- bit of a neat freak
- clean freak
near-identical informal term, leaning more on cleanliness than order
- perfectionist
broader; about high standards in any area, not only tidiness
- slob
informal; a person who is habitually messy and careless
用法筆記
Informal and usually light-hearted; speakers often apply it to themselves or close friends rather than as a serious criticism.