a person who is too concerned with small details or rules especially when learning or teaching 迂夫子;书呆子;学究 A pedant will always insist that you ask for ‘fewer’ items rather than ‘less’. 一个学究总是坚持让你要求“少”而不是“少”。
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French pédant, from Italian pedante, perhaps from the first element of Latin paedogogus, from Greek paidagōgos, denoting a slave who accompanied a child to school (from pais, paid- ‘boy’ + agōgos ‘guide’).