N-COUNT 拘泥于细节(或传统)的人;(尤指)学究,书呆子,老夫子 If you say that someone is a pedant, you mean that they are too concerned with unimportant details or traditional rules, especially in connection with academic subjects.
I am no pedant and avoid being dogmatic concerning English grammar and expression. 我不是书呆子,不想在英语语法和表达方式上过于教条主义。
Rabelais, like a torrent of burning, shouting, laughing lava, burst through all the dignities and decencies of the pedants. 拉伯雷象一股熔岩的洪流,燃烧着,狂喊着,大笑着,冲开了腐儒们的一切高贵气派和繁文缛节。
I have several beautiful fine nephrite pedants and the price is also low, which you can't belive it. 我还有几块漂亮精致的和阗玉挂件,当然价格也是相当低的。也许你简直不敢相信这一切都是真的。
Those cold-blooded pedants are not insensible. 那些冷血腐儒不是没有知觉。
Fools act on imagination without knowledge; pedants act on knowledge without imagination.& Alfred North Whitehead, British philosopher and mathematician 蠢人愚昧无知,单凭想象行事;学究则死抠知识,缺乏想象。英国哲学家、数学家怀特海
Bribery of teachers by students, common in China, had been almost unknown till the advent of Chiang's pedants. 学生贿赂老师在中国是司空见惯的事。但是在蒋的这帮误人子弟的教员到来以前,岛上几乎没有这种陋习。
Pedants sneer at an education, which is useful. 学究们藐视教育,但教育却是有益的。
To pedants, it may seem obvious when new centuries start. 对学究们而言,一个新世纪开始于何时显而易见。
Only pedants give a fig for stuffy concepts such as Michelin stars – what diners want is flair, variety, informality and value. 只有老学究才会理会诸如米其林星之类的陈腐概念&用餐者追求的是时髦、变化、随意和价值。
Pedants will also claim, with what I am sure is eye-popping insincerity and shameless disingenuousness, that their fight is only for'clarity '. 这帮学究们还说他们是为了语言文字的明确性而战,对此我敢肯定根本就是毫无诚意的无耻谰言。
Only pedants believe in the advantage of obfuscation. 只有书呆子才相信使人困惑会有好处。
Teachers are no longer pedants, but practitioners. 教师不是空谈家,而是实践家。