| 单词 | 迂腐 |
| 释义 | 〔careen〕The implication of rapidity that most often accompanies the use ofcareen as a verb of motion may have arisen naturally through the extension of the nautical sense of the verb to apply to the motion of automobiles, which generallycareen, that is, lurch or tip over, only when driven at high speed. There is thus no reason to conclude that this use of the verb is the result of a confusion ofcareen with career, "to rush.” Whatever the origin of this use, however,it is by now so well establishedthat it would be pedantic to object to it.在多数时候，careen 作为动作动词使用时具有速度迅捷的含义。把该动词在航海方面的意思引申，使其义应用于汽车的运行，也许这样就很自然地产生了迅捷的含义； 因为汽车只有在高速行驶时通常才careen ，即突然地侧倾或偏斜。 据此，如果下结论说动词的这种用法是混淆了careen 和表示“急驰，猛冲的” careen 的结果，这是毫无道理的。 然而，不论这用法的起源是什么，如今它已得到确认，要对此表示异议的话未免过于迂腐了〔graffito〕The formgraffiti, based on the Italian plural, is far more common than the singular form graffito. Graffitiis often used as a singular noun. When the reference is to a particular inscription (as inThere was a bold graffiti on the wall ), the formgraffito would be etymologically correct but might strike some readers as pedantic outside an archaeological context.There is no substitute for the singular use ofgraffiti when the word is used as a mass noun to refer to inscriptions in general or to the related social phenomenon. The sentenceGraffiti is a major problem for the Transit Authority Police cannot be rewordedGraffito is . . . (since graffito can refer only to a particular inscription) or Graffiti are . . . , which suggests that the police problem involves only the physical marks and not the larger issue of vandalism.In such contexts,the use ofgraffiti as a singular is justified by both utility and widespread precedent. 基于意大利语的复数形式graffiti 远比单数形式 graffito更普遍。 Graffiti常用作单数名词。 当意指一特定涂鸦物（如在墙上有一处下流的涂鸦 中）， graffito 的形式在词形变化上是正确的， 但可能会在古文化语境外使一些人显得迂腐。graffiti 的单数作物质名词使用来指涂鸦的总称或相应的社会现象时，是没有替代词的。 句子：涂鸦是公共交通警察局遇到的主要难题 ， 不能用Graffito is … 来替换（因为 graffito 只能指一具体的涂鸦）或用 Graffiti are … 来替换， 因其意指警察的问题只涉及存在的标记而不是破坏公物的大问题。在这些语境中，graffiti 作为单数形式的使用是被广泛使用的先例所证实的 〔dryasdust〕A dull, pedantic speaker or writer.学究：枯燥而迂腐的讲话人或作者〔literary〕Bookish; pedantic.书生气的；迂腐的〔academic〕Scholarly to the point of being unaware of the outside world.See Synonyms at pedantic 学究式的，迂腐的：除学术方面以外对外界毫无知觉 参见 pedantic〔hidebound〕Stubbornly prejudiced, narrow-minded, or inflexible.思想偏狭顽固的、迂腐的或守旧的〔shambles〕The original sense ofshambles to denote a meat market is by now so obscurein American usage that it must be counted the height of pedantry to insist,as a few critics continue to do,that the word should be used metaphorically only to refer to a scene of carnage.作为指肉市的单词shambles 的原始意义， 现在已很模糊，以致在美语用法中认为这个词只能隐喻地指屠杀情景，若还象一些批评家继续做的那样，准会被看作是极度迂腐的做法〔bookish〕Pedantic; dull.See Synonyms at pedantic 迂腐的；乏味的 参见 pedantic〔pedantry〕The habit of mind or manner characteristic of a pedant.迂腐的言行：心理或行为带有学究气的习性〔pedagogic〕Characterized by pedantic formality:学究式的，文绉绉的：以迂腐的拘礼为特征的：〔lucubration〕Often lucubrations Writing produced by laborious effort or study, especially pedantic or pretentious writing. 常作 lucubrations 著书立说，刻苦研究：勤奋的努力或学习产生的著作，尤其是迂腐的或做作的著作〔pedantic〕Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules:迂腐的，学究式的：以狭隘且通常过于注重书本知识和爱卖弄学问为特点的： |
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