For years, linguists, grammar nerds, and pedants have battled over the Oxford comma.

多年来，语言家、语法怪才和究们一直在为牛津逗号争论不休。

A pedant will correct native speakers' mistakes too, and not in the classroom.

究也会纠正母语使用者的错误，而且并不是在课堂上。

Yes, and you thought I was a pedant!

是的，你还认为我是个究！

Well, I hate to sound like an academic, but yes and no.

嗯，我不想听起来像个究，但说不准。

You're his parent. I'm just an absentminded academic who's never had children.

你是他亲娘，我只不过是个脑子糊涂又从未有过孩子的老究。

So tell that to the next pedant who tries to correct you.

所以告诉下一个试图纠正你的究。

The donnish duo, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, have each written a stack of books.

汤姆·霍兰德 (Tom Holland) 和多米尼克·桑德布鲁克 (Dominic Sandbrook) 究式的人组各一堆书。

But there I am perhaps somewhat of a pedant.

但我可能有点究气。

Pedant for pedant, the old is better than the new.

究究， 旧的不如新的。

Dude, he's totally old school, not to mention just plain old.

大哥 他完全是个老究，不是说一点半点的老。

Err, shouldn't that be five minutes? - Oh, Rob, you are being pedantic-focussing too much on the small details or formal rules.

呃，不应该是五分钟吗？罗伯，你表现得像个老究——太专注于小细节或教条。

He himself, in his habitual pedantism, thus divided them, and according placed them in three different portfolios.

他本人以他一贯的究态度， 将他们分开， 并据此将他们置于三个不同的职位。

From my perspective, it is crucial that modern education should encourage people to be practitioners rather than pedants.

在我看来，现代教育应该鼓励人们成为实践者而不是究， 一点至关重要。

But it needs skill, mind you: and to deny it is a gross error of the literary pedants.

但是，请注意，它需要技巧：否认它是文究们的一个严重错误。

A pedant is someone who corrects other people's small mistakes, particularly in grammar and punctuation, but it's not the same as an English teacher!

究就是纠正别人小错误的人，尤其是语法和标点符号方面，但和英语老师不一样！

Calm and phlegmatic, with a clear eye, Mr. Fogg seemed a perfect type of that English composure which Angelica Kauffmann has so skilfully represented on canvas.

安详，冷静，眼皮一眨不眨，眼珠明亮有神，简直是那种冷静的英国人最标准的典型。种人在联合王国里是司空见惯的。昂·高夫曼的妙笔，常把他们画成多少带点究气的人物。

Adlai Stevenson was known as an intellectual -- an " egghead." He dismissed some traditional political advisers and replaced them with fellow " eggheads" when he launched his campaign.

阿德莱·史蒂文森被称为知识分子——一个“书呆子”。他在发起竞选时，解雇一些传统的政治顾问，代之以其他“究类”人士。

By the time she'd finished we were usually on the floor. We'd cackle until our ribs hurt, imagining our prim, professorial uncle meeting Dad's unruly crew.

她讲完个故事，我们常常笑到肋骨生疼，倒在地上打滚。我们想象着一本正经、老究般的舅舅和爸爸家那帮野蛮的家伙见面的场景。

Every day too--for she was no pedant, no cold-blooded theorist--something was born in her that thrust aside her theories and forced her to model them afresh.

同样，每天——因为她不是究，也不是冷血的理论家——她内心诞生某种东西，将她的理论抛在一边，迫使她重新塑造它们。

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make jugment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar.

读书费时过 多易惰，文采藻饰太盛则矫, 全凭条文断事乃究故态。