pedant是什么意思

双语用例

• Grammarians may be serious students of language, but they are frequently caricatured as pedants.

• This reference also shows that the traditional preference for the elliptical like is every bit as worthy as the pedants' choice of the elliptical ax.

• More than anything else, linguistic change is a phenomenon pedants cannot cope with, because they cannot control it.

• Purists are pedants insisting on the letter - the 'grammatical' meaning - rather than the spirit of the text.

• Does the difference enhance the language, or merely help to keep pedants employed?

• A pedant might say that this is a predicament rather than a dilemma; but no matter, the reader will already have gathered that this is an ambitious book.

• There no one but a pedant would suggest an immediate attempt to recover that gold by high bank rates or anything of that kind.

• The first relates to health spending; it is something of a pedant's point.