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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 fastidiously
 (ad.)非常講究地,一絲不苟地

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Fas·tid·i·ous a.  Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.
    Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world.   --Young.
 Syn: -- Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious.
 Usage: Fastidious, Squeamish. We call a person fastidious when his taste or feelings are offended by trifling defects or errors; we call him squeamish when he is excessively nice or critical on minor points, and also when he is overscrupulous as to questions of duty. “Whoever examines his own imperfections will cease to be fastidious; whoever restrains his caprice and scrupulosity will cease to be squeamish.” --Crabb.
 -- Fas*tid*i*ous*ly, adv. -- Fas*tid*i*ous*ness, n.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 fastidiously
      adv 1: in a fastidious and painstaking manner; "it is almost a
             waste of time painstakingly to learn the routines of
             selling" [syn: painstakingly]
      2: in a fastidious manner; "he writes extremely musical music,
         of which the sound is fastidiously calculated and yet
         agreeably spontaneous and imaginative"