didactic
/dɪˈdæktɪk/adjective
1- intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive教学的; 道德教育的：
a didactic novel that set out to expose social injustice.
试图暴露社会不公的一部道德教育小说。
1.1
- in the manner of a teacher, particularly so as to treat someone in a patronizing way好为人师的, 教训人的：
she was speaking with a didactic severity.
她说话时板着一副教训人的脸。
派生词
didactically
adverbdidacticism
noun词源
mid 17th cent.: from Greek didaktikos, from didaskein 'teach'.