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conscientious

adjective
🔊/ˌkɒnʃiˈenʃəs/
🔊/ˌkɑːnʃiˈenʃəs/
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  1. taking care to do things carefully and correctly勤勉认真的；一丝不苟的
    • a conscientious student/teacher/worker勤勉认真的学生；一丝不苟的老师；认真负责的工人
    • He was thorough and conscientious, rather than brilliant.他做事周到认真，但并非才华横溢。
    • She was a popular and conscientious teacher.她是受欢迎的老师，工作一丝不苟。
    Topics Personal qualitiesc1
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryConscientious is used with these nouns:
    • objection
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    Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French consciencieux, from medieval Latin conscientiosus, from Latin conscientia, from conscient- ‘being privy to’, from the verb conscire, from con- ‘with’ + scire ‘know’.