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老。

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

所以告诉下一个试图纠正你。

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) 这对式二人组各自写了一堆书。

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

对， 旧不如新。

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

他本人以他一贯态度， 将他们分开， 并据此将他们置于三个不同职位。

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：否认它是文们一个严重错误。

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，简直是那种冷静英国人最典型。这种人在联合王国里是司空见惯。昂·高夫曼妙笔，常把他们画成多少带点气人物。

There is not, perhaps, in the kingdom, a more dogmatical or luxurious set of men, than the pedantic tyrants who reside in colleges and preside at public schools.

或许，在王国中，没有比住在大和担任公立校校长式暴君更教条或更奢侈人了。

Just because you're dealing with a scholarly discipline that's usually reported in a style of dry pedantry is no reason why you shouldn't write in good fresh English.

仅仅因为你处理是一个通常以枯燥式风格报道术领域， 并不意味着你不应该用良好清新英语来写作。

I am no uncompromising artistic pedant; I am quite willing to try and do the kind of work that will sell; under the circumstances it would be a kind of insanity if I refused.

我不是一个不妥协艺术;我很愿意尝试做那种能卖掉工作;在这种情况下，如果我拒绝，那将是一种疯狂。

Another guest arrived, with a dejected look, without a tooth in his head, but very accurately dressed. After him came the local doctor, a very bad doctor, who was fond of coming out with learned expressions.

又来了一位客人，一副垂头丧气样子，脑袋上没有一颗牙，但穿着非常讲。跟在他后面是当地医生，一个非常糟糕医生，喜欢一副气表情出来。

He had a great many acquaintances among students and young people, who liked him for his cynical wit, his harmless, though biting, self-confident speeches, his one-sided, unpedantic, though genuine, learning, but occasionally they sat on him severely.

他在生和年轻人中有很多熟人， 他们喜欢他玩世不恭机智， 他无害但尖刻但自信演讲， 他片面、不但真诚识， 但有时他们会严厉批评他.

" Oh yes, the Duke of Luxembourg at Montmorency, used to accompany a Coindet from the neighbourhood of Paris, " went on Mademoiselle de la Mole, with all the pleasure and enthusiasm of her first flush of pedantry.

“哦，是，蒙莫朗西卢森堡公爵，过去常常陪伴巴黎附近一个 Coindet，”德拉莫尔小姐继续说道，带着她第一次气所有乐趣和热情。