【每日一词】pedantic - adj. 迂腐的；学究式的；卖弄学问的；假装学者的；过分注重细节的

　　1: of, relating to, or being a pedant

　　a pedantic teacher

　2: narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned

　　a pedantic insistence that we follow the rules exactly

　 Far worse, he was pedantic, pernickety, letting nothing inaccurate or of uncertain meaning go by—not an aphrodisiac quality. —Kingsley Amis

　　3: UNIMAGINATIVE, DULL

　　Pedantic song choices don't help any. Only 2 out of 10 songs stray from the most commonic-rock fodder. —Jim Farber

　　短语

　　pedantic style: 迂腐的脾气秉性

　　Pedantic Learning: 咬文嚼字

　　pedantic ideas: 迂腐的见解

　　pedantic and stubborn: 迂执

　　a pedantic view: 书生之见

　　poor and pedantic: 穷酸

　　Examples of pedantic in a Sentence

　　It may seem pedantic to harp on what looks like mere procedure, but this is one case where the process is the forest.

　　—Hendrik Hertzberg, New Yorker, 29 May 2000

　　Yet not since Kenneth Roberts has anyone written of early New England life in such vivid and convincing detail. (The minor inaccuracies will stir only the pedantic.)

　　—Annie Proulx, New York Times Book Review, 28 Apr. 1991

　　What I'm objecting to is that picture books are judged from a particular, pedantic point of view vis-à-vis their relation to children—and I insist that a picture book is much more.

　　—Maurice Sendak, Caldecott & Co., 1988

　　She is looking for the will, or for the diary; always looking for herself in history, the self the pious, pedantic Tolstoyans would disinherit and deny. …

　　—Elizabeth Hardwick, Bartleby in Manhattan and Other Essays, (1962) 1984

　　Recent Examples on the Web

　　And to be pedantic for a moment, plenty of contemporary Spider-Man movies and spin-offs have been released in the years since 2003, when this film is set, and none mentions the good Madame or her coterie of female sidekicks.

　　—David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2024

　　Gemini May 21 – June 20 A pedantic approach risks alienating a loved one today.

　　—Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 5 Feb. 2024

　　Davenport’s insights approach the pyrotechnical, but his prose is approachable, never pedantic.

　　—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023