pedantry的意思

pedantry

英式音标['pɛdntri]
美式英标['ped(ə)ntrɪ]

基本解释

n. 迂腐；卖弄学问；假装学者

中文词源

pedantry 迂腐，学究气的

来自pedant,迂夫子，学究。

英文词源

pedantry (n.): 1610s, from Italian pedanteria, from pedante, or from French pédanterie, from pédant (see pedant).

实用例句

1. The book is a demonstration of scholarship without pedantry.: 这本书表现出学术水平又不故意卖弄学问.

2. As a bel esprit he despised pedantry whether in a man or in a bluestocking.: 作为一个才子,他看不起卖弄学问的作风,不管这种作风是由男人还是女才子所表现出来的.

3. He had all the illumination of wisdom and none of its pedantry.: 他具有智慧的一切光辉,却没有丝毫学究的迂腐气息.

4. Governmental organizations are too pedantry, with slavish attention to rules.: 不过英国得政府机构很迂腐,做事情一定要按照条例.

5. Generation gap, conservation, reminiscence, pedantry and stubbornness all basically derive from that.: 代沟, 保守, 怀旧, 迂腐顽固,基本都源于此.

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