Pedant
['ped(ə)nt] or ['pɛdnt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit.
格雷西校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
(n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
布雷特整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Pretender to learning.
編輯:特鲁迪
解釋/意思:
n. one who makes a vain display of learning: a pretender to knowledge which he does not possess: (Shak.) a pedagogue.—adjs. Pedant′ic -al displaying knowledge for the sake of showing.—adv. Pedant′ically in a pedantic manner.—ns. Pedant′icism Ped′antism.—v.i. Ped′antise to play the pedant.—ns. Pedantoc′racy government by pedants; Ped′antry acts manners or character of a pedant: vain display of learning: (Swift) the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
校對:朱莉娅
例句/造句/用法:
- But there I am perhaps somewhat of a pedant. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Try to judge the great beliefs that have swayed mankind by their inner logic or their empirical solidity and you stand forever, a dull pedant, apart from the interests of men. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- No wonder that mankind have been in the habit of calling statesmen of this class pedants, sophisters, doctrinaires, visionaries. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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