书呆子的

"In reality," observed Albert, he seemed to me somewhat eccentric; were he at Paris, and a frequenter of the theatres, I should say he was a poor devil literally mad.

假如他在巴黎，而且是戏院里的一个老观众，我就要说他是一个把世界当舞台的愤世嫉俗的丑角，或是一个读小说着了迷的书呆子。

Along with two new friends – one a nerd with a penchant for chicken lo mein, the other a man with Down's Syndrome – who help her navigate a rocky and often confusing path, Lily Sinclair discovers that sometimes family is only the people you choose, and that love can come in all different forms.

於是，她和他的两个新朋友－一个爱好鸡捞面的书呆子和另一名患有唐氏综合症的男子，帮助她走过这一段坎坷又迷惘的的路。

With his big shiny forehead and podgy face, he looked like the class swot, rather than a revolutionary.

他的前额锃亮，脸胖乎乎的，看上去就像个教室里的书呆子，而不是革命家。

He is a unbookish scholar and capable of dealing with practical problems.

他不是一个书呆子式的学者，有很强的处理实际问题的能力。

It is also important to approach your studies with clear aims, rather than as an unfocused book-worm, he explains.

同样重要的是设立明确的学习目标，而不是当一个漫无目的的书呆子。

For an individual voter, being well-informed about every twist of public policy is an irrational use of time. But leaving a self-selecting elite of wonks and careerists in charge of policy-making is unappealing.

一个独立的投票人花时间去知晓公共政策的每个方面是愚蠢的，但是将制定政策的权利留给书呆子和野心家这种的精英是令人厌恶的。

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。

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。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。