The book is riddled with a tiresome pedantry masquerading as scholarship.这本书里满是披着学问外衣的无聊迂腐见解。

His autobiography is full of recondite words used for no other reason than to show the author's pedantry.他的自传里全是深奥的字眼, 只是为了卖弄自己的学问, 别无其他。