pedantic

英 [pɪˈdæntɪk]

美 [pɪˈdæntɪk]

adj.  迂腐的; 学究气的

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BNC.20086 / COCA.26651

牛津词典

adj.

• 迂腐的；学究气的
  too worried about small details or rules

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 过分拘泥于细节（或传统）的；学究气的；迂腐的
  If you think someone ispedantic, you mean that they are too concerned with unimportant details or traditional rules, especially in connection with academic subjects.
  1. His lecture was so pedantic and uninteresting.
     他的讲座学究气太浓，没意思。

英英释义

adj

• marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
  Synonym:academicdonnish

双语例句

• These arguments relate little, if at all, to the business problem at hand and tend to devolve into pedantic arguments of semantics.
  这些争论根本与手头的业务问题关系甚微，如果有的话也非常少，并退化为书生气十足的语义学争论。
• And although you may anticipate that it's kind of pedantic, I really do want to illustrate something by it.
  你们可能会觉得，这有些迂腐，但我想通过它来讲一些东西。
• His lecture was so pedantic and uninteresting.
  他的讲座学究气太浓，没意思。
• This second "misuse", however is one that it would be rather pedantic to protest at nowadays.
  然而，这第二种“误用”是一种现今提出异议就可能相当学究气的误用。
• But here, I'm just being a little more pedantic, that's really what a string is.
  但是这里，我刚有点迂腐的，那实际上就是字符串。
• Reading in a pedantic way may turn you into a bookworm or a bookcase, and has long been opposed.
  读死书会变成书呆子，甚至于成为书橱，早有人反对过了。
• "Pedantic and inflexible" is how a large foreign investor describes it.
  一些外国投资者形容其为迂腐且不灵活。
• Behind this seemingly pedantic linguistic game lies an important truth about brokenness: that although in some way it clearly implies imperfection, life needs flaws to be whole.
  这似乎是个书生气的文字游戏，但背后却蕴含了有关破碎的一条真理：尽管在某种意义上缺憾意味着不完美，但如果没有缺憾，人生就不完整。
• If I understood his pedantic German correctly, he was expressing an admiration for her.
  如果我没理解错他那学究式的德语的话，那么他是在向她表示仰慕之意。
• The workforce knows that pedantic adherence to fixed rules rapidly falls by the way side in the light of tight schedules and limited resources.
  职工知道，根据紧张的进度和有限的资源，迂腐地遵守确定的规则会快速地半途而废。