pedants

英 [ˈpɛdənts]

美

n.  迂夫子; 书呆子; 学究
pedant的复数

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。

双语例句

• 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。
• Pedants sneer at an education, which is useful.
  学究们藐视教育，但教育却是有益的。
• 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。
• Teachers are no longer pedants, but practitioners.
  教师不是空谈家，而是实践家。
• 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 believe in the advantage of obfuscation.
  只有书呆子才相信使人困惑会有好处。
• 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。
• 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