a person who insists on a certain quality or type of behaviour 坚持拥有…品质的人;坚持做…的人 a stickler for accuracy. 坚持精确性的人。 a stickler when it comes to timekeeping. 守时的人。
语源
mid 16th cent. (in the sense 'umpire'): from obsolete stickle 'be umpire', alteration of obsolete stightle 'to control', frequentative of Old English stiht(i)an 'set in order'