1.Yes, and you thought I was a pedant!

是的，还认为我是个学究！

2.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。

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

学究也会纠母语使用者的错误，而且并不是在课堂上。

4.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牛津逗号争论不休。

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

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。

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

学究对学究， 旧的不如新的。机翻

7.But there I am perhaps somewhat of a pedant.

但我可能有点学究气。机翻

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

所以告诉下一个试图纠的学究。机翻

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

大哥 他完全是个老学究，不是说一点半点的老。

10.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了一堆书。机翻

11.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学究， 这一点至关。机翻

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

他本人以他一贯的学究态度， 将他们分开， 并据此将他们置于三个不同的职位。机翻

13.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，表现得像个老学究——太专注于小细节或教条。

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

但是，请注意，它需技巧：否认它是文学学究们的一个严错误。机翻

15.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！

16.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，常把他们画成多少点学究气的人物。

17.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——因为她不是学究，也不是冷血的理论家——她内心诞生了某种东西，将她的理论抛在一边，迫使她新塑造它们。机翻

18.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。我们想象着一本经、老学究般的舅舅和家那帮野蛮的家伙见面的场景。

19.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，解雇了一些传统的政治顾问，代之以其他“学究类”人士。

20.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。