书呆子

Only pedants believe in the advantage of obfuscation.

只有书呆子才相信使人困惑会有好处。

Fools act on imagination without knowledge; pedants act on knowledge without imagination and the task of a university is to weld together imagination and experience.

无知的蠢人只会凭想像行事，而书呆子只知道照搬书本，没有任何想像力可言。大学的任务是教人如何将想像力和实际经验结合起来。

Pedants may quibble that only the DNA of the new beast was actually manufactured in a laboratory; the researchers had to use the shell of an existing bug to get that DNA to do its stuff.

书呆子可能会诡辩只有新生物的DNA是实验室制造的；科学家不得不用现已存在的昆虫的壳取得DNA，然后才开始造物。

From my perspective, however, adding more ideas to these three women's heads would be like forcing Clark Kent to add assorted sweaters, parkas, and goggles to his nerdy suit and specs. Finding your purpose and power requires stripping certain thoughts away like street clothes until you hit Lycra. My job with the three women I'd be coaching was to help them peel away illusions until their superhero identities emerged.

不过在我看来，把更多的想法交给这三位女性去思考就好比强迫超人把各种毛衣、皮大衣、护目镜统统加在他那书呆子的西服和眼镜上：要找到你的目标和力量需要做的是把特定的想法就像脱去一般外衣直到露出紧身衣一样。

I am trying hard not to live up to the typical Asian stereotype—nerdy.

我极力试图摆脱典型的、亚洲人的刻板形象—书呆子。

She wants to prove that girls can be successful at math and science without being nerdy.

她想证明，女孩照样可以在数学和科学等领域拥有傲人成绩，同时也不会变成书呆子。

Gordon: It is also good for nerds who want to improve their English.

戈登：对那些想提高英语水平的书呆子来说也很好。

The fifth from the left, a fashionable pooch, represents the editors and reporters he thinks are fools -- arrogant, over-educated and self-deluding, and ideal targets for the Republicans.

左数第五是只时髦的狗，代表着被奥列芬特视为傻瓜的编辑和记者———他们傲慢自大，书呆子气，自欺欺人，是共和党理想的利用目标。

He was the one who wanted to get shot light years out in space to find the answers.

他是那种可以在数光年远的外太空里为了理想而去寻找答案的书呆子。

He wanted a rough-and-tumble son who could fish and hunt, while I was a bookworm who wanted a father to hold me in his lap and read to me.

他希望我成为能捕鱼、会打猎、经得起摔打的儿子，而我是个指望父亲抱我在膝上，给我读书的书呆子。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。