He rebuked them for their pedantries and obstinacies.

骂们的迂腐和固执。

City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.

城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。

There are some mischievous and prosaic people who carp and calculate at every detail of the romancer.

有些刁钻促狭，迂腐愚蠢的人，喜欢吹毛求疵，对小家的每一个细节都要追根究底。