grammarian
grammarian 英 [grəˈmeəriən] 美 [grəˈmeriən]
n. 文法学者，文法家；文法教师
名词复数:grammarians
- A grammarian is someone who studies, writes about, teaches, and/or loves grammar. Some English teachers are grammarians — they’re the ones who don’t mind spending an afternoon discussing the Oxford comma.
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- n. 文法学者，文法家；文法教师
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1. Although it seemed natural to use an apostrophe in the possessive plural, authorities, such as the grammarian Robert Lowth, argued against this.
尽管在复数名词后使用撇号表示拥有看起来很自然，还是有权威反对这用法，比如语法学家Robert Lowth。
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2. I am not sure which of them, the names of the bones or the sutras of the grammarian, were the more jaw-breaking. I think the latter took the palm.
我不能确定到底是骨头的名字还是语法学家的“经文”更难发音，我想应该是后者要难得多吧。
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3. If you're a grammarian, consider it a verb, though saying that someone "romanced" someone else sounds about as stilted and antiquated as hearing that someone went "a-wooing.
如果你是一个语法学家，把它当成一个动词，虽然这样说某人和某人“浪漫了”，听起就像听到有人痛苦的呻吟一样不舒服。
- grammarian (n.) late 14c., "writer on (Latin) grammar; philologist, etymologist;" in general use, "learned man," from Old French gramairien "wise man, person who knows Latin; magician" (Modern French grammairien), agent noun from grammaire (see grammar).
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