Gradgrindian

形容词 adj.
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英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Having a soulless devotion to facts and figures; inflexibly utilitarian.
    — But today's winning businesses are positively Gradgrindian in their pursuit of the truth.

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词源

From Gradgrind + -ian, name of a pedantic character in Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times.
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