| 词汇 | stickler |
| 词源 | stickler. The earliest sticklers were umpires or moderators at wrestling or fencing matches and tournaments in the 16th cen- tury. Within another hundred years the word was being used figuratively, followed by for, to describe anybody who unyield- ingly insists on something. Stickler derives from the Anglo- Saxon stihtan, “to arrange or regulate.” |
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