书呆子

dú sǐ shū huì biàn chéng shū dāi zi zǎo yǒu rén fǎn duì guo le

读死书会变成书呆子，早有人反对过了。

Reading in a pedantic way may turn you into a bookworm, and has long been opposed.

wǒ tīng nì le nà xiē shū dāi zi de fèi huà

我听腻了那些书呆子的废话。

I was sick of his intellectual flimflam.

zì dà de shū dāi zi

自大的书呆子

the pompous egghead

tā zhēn shi gè quē fá rén shēng yuè lì de shū dāi zi

她真是个缺乏人生阅历的书呆子。

She is really a mere bookworm lacking human experience.