pedant

英 [ˈpednt]

美 [ˈpednt]

n.  迂夫子; 书呆子; 学究

复数：pedants　

GRE

BNC.35152 / COCA.37252

牛津词典

noun

• 迂夫子；书呆子；学究
  a person who is too concerned with small details or rules especially when learning or teaching

柯林斯词典

• 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 apedant, you mean that they are too concerned with unimportant details or traditional rules, especially in connection with academic subjects.
  1. 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。

英英释义

noun

• a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
  Synonym:bookwormscholastic

双语例句

• It is said that an old politico is still wiser than an old pedant, which is certainly true.
  据说，政客老了也比学者老了精明，那是真实的。
• He's a bit of a pedant.
  这人有点迂。
• Everybody at the meeting is a droning pedant.
  会上人人都是语言乏味的空谈家。
• Are you a pedant?
  你是书呆子吗？
• "Of course the man's a pedant."
  “没错，他是个迂腐的家伙。”
• A man of talent is one thing, and a pedant another.
  有才能的人和卖弄学问的人是不一样的。
• Few people like a pedant.
  没有几个人喜欢学究。
• Indeed he went farther, and characterised the baron as the most intolerable formal pedant he had ever had the misfortune to meet with.
  岂止如此，他还把男爵说成是他有生以来不幸遇上的最无法容忍的迂夫子。
• A captious pedant; an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor.
  吹毛求疵的学究；过分苛求、吹毛求疵的导师。
• The wise man carries his ideas lightly like colored balloons at a fair; the pedant drags his like ponderous ladders through crowded thoroughfares.
  聪明的人轻松自如地携带思想，犹如节日缤纷的气球；愚笨的人拖着思想，像扛着笨重的梯子，去穿过拥挤的街道。