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她有时还会咬文嚼字地说起她的“目标”。And she sometimes talked about her “goals.”

这个看上去可能有点咬文嚼字，但是它很重要。This may look like just semantics, but it matters.

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咬文嚼字的品位一下这篇英文写的文章。Read This Article in English With Chinese Characters

但是，玛扎尔又补充说，“你不应该咬文嚼字的寻找证据去证实文本。”But, adds Mazar, "you shouldn't seek to prove the text verbatim."

这位评论家不去解决实质问题，而总是咬文嚼字。Instead of deciding the real issue the commentator would chop logic.

他们把这些命题贬称为“琐碎”或“只是咬文嚼字罢了”。They stigmatize these propositions as "trifling" or " merely verbal".

那里对于充满梦幻并喜欢咬文嚼字的诗人来说应该是个让他们很自在的地方，他们可以在那里深思关于死亡的问题。Any dreamy, pen-chewing poet would feel at home there, musing on mortality.

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虽然这点不同看起来像咬文嚼字，但实际上存在着深奥的区别。While this may seem like mincing words, there is in fact a profound difference.

你怎么能指望我去钟情于一个专爱咬文嚼字的书呆子呢？How do you expect me to fall in love with someone who speaks like a book all the time?

判令里连篇累牍咬文嚼字地讨论乞讨是言论还是行为。The legal pavane included pages of discussion of whether begging is speech, or begging is behavior.

在这种方式和直接的美国军事空运之间，很难看出有什么差别，因此要说有差别，就显得有些学院式的咬文嚼字了。The difference between that mode and a direct American military airlift was so esoteric as to seem academic.

我希望文中的分力比例不要被咬文嚼字地理解，它们只是大致的虚拟数字。I hope that the load distribution percentages provided here are not taken literally. These are just approximate hypothetical numbers.

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而中国则咬文嚼字、避开美方不满的实质，做官样文章。Now the Chinese have responded by seizing on the form of American language to avoid dealing with the substance of American complaints.

德国的新教学者在19世纪早期带头，咬文嚼字地从新约里寻找“神话”背后真实的耶稣。Protestant scholars in Germany took the lead in the early 19th century, similarly sifting the New Testament for evidence of the flesh-and-blood Nazarene beneath the "myths."