Yes, and you thought I was a pedant!

是的，你还认为我是个！

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

嗯，我不想听起来像个，但说不准。

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

也会纠正母语使用者的错误，而且并不是在课堂上。

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。

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

多年来，语言家、语法怪才和们一直在为牛津逗号争论不休。

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

对， 旧的不如新的。

But there I am perhaps somewhat of a pedant.

但我可能有点气。

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。

The pedant's clothes were pegged by the pedicab.

的衣服被三轮车夹住。

When he was passing the pedestrian crossing, he ran down the pedant!

当他过人行横道时，他撞到。

He revenged the pedant quickly with a peeler.

他用一把削皮刀很快报。

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

大哥 他完全是个，不是说一点半点的。

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， 这一点至关重要。

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

他本人以他一贯的态度， 将他们分开， 并据此将他们置于三个不同的职位。

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——太专注于小细节或教条。

This is not generally a hotly anticipated event, being precisely the kind of wonkish release that seldom attracts wider interest.

这通常不是一个备受期待的事件，恰恰是那种式的发布，很少能引起更广泛的兴趣。

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!

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。这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气的人物。

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.

她讲完这个故事，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、般的舅舅和家那帮野蛮的家伙见面的场景。

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“类”人士。