| 词汇 | pedant |
| 释义 | pedant noun[ C ] disapprovinguk /ˈped.ənt/ us /ˈped.ənt/ a person who is too interested in formal rules and small details that are not important书呆子，学究 Wanting everything to be right anally anally retentive choosy cover all the basesidiom dot the i's and cross the t'sidiom fuss fussbudget fussily fussiness fusspot particular pedantic pedantically pedantry perfectionism punctilious punctiliously punctiliousness purism purist Related wordpedantry Examples of pedantpedant Grammarians may be serious students of language, but they are frequently caricatured as pedants. This reference also shows that the traditional preference for the elliptical like is every bit as worthy as the pedants' choice of the elliptical ax. More than anything else, linguistic change is a phenomenon pedants cannot cope with, because they cannot control it. Purists are pedants insisting on the letter - the 'grammatical' meaning - rather than the spirit of the text. Does the difference enhance the language, or merely help to keep pedants employed? A pedant might say that this is a predicament rather than a dilemma; but no matter, the reader will already have gathered that this is an ambitious book. There no one but a pedant would suggest an immediate attempt to recover that gold by high bank rates or anything of that kind. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The first relates to health spending; it is something of a pedant's point. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps only those take a strong view in that way who are like myself more or less professional pedants in the matter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Are the livelihoods of men to be at the mercy of such pedants? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is no pedant who refuses to alter any views which he first took up when a case was first press sited to him. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not say this in the spirit of a pedant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To add to what the printers did, the pedants came along. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is accused of being a constitutional pedant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This great legal change over 50 years has not been due to the lawyers or to the pedants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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