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

多年来，语言学家、语法怪才和学究们一直在为号争论不休。

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学究气的人物。

In general, it just seems like the second edition stuff is where he gets really picky and pedantic and detailed.

总的来说，第二版的内容似乎正是他变得极为挑剔、学究气十足且细致入微的地方。

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!

学究就是纠正别人小错误的人，尤其是语法和点符号方面，但和英语老师不一样！

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, 全凭条文断事乃学究故态。

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

嗯，我不想听起来像个学究，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学究。

A pedant will point out that none of these things are strictly unprocessed by the time they are sold: the carrot is washed, the steak is refrigerated, the raisin is dried.

一个学究指出，严格来说，没有任何食物在出售时是未经加工的: 胡萝卜经过，排经过冷藏保存，葡萄干除去水分。

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“学究类”人士。

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，你表现得像个老学究——太专注于小细节或教条。

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

学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，你还认为我是个学究！

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学究。

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) 这对学究式的二人组各自写一堆书。

One is a sort of demand for pedantry.

一方面是对学究式精确的追求。

Hello there, I'm the cartooniverse's steamiest wonk.

你好，我是卡通宇宙中最火热的学究。

And I think It's academic, it's smug, it's elitist, and it's wrong.

我认为这种态度是学究气的、自满的、精英主义的，而且是大错特错的。

Nash criticizes Harvey for being a long-winded pedant who loves to hear himself talk.

纳什批评哈维是个长篇大论的学究，喜欢听到自己说话的声音。

So that was my pedantic moment as a childish seamstress.

那就是我作为稚嫩小裁缝的学究时刻。

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

学究对学究， 旧的不如新的。