pettiness

英

美

网络  小气; 琐碎; 不杂任何小气; 小心眼; 卑鄙

BNC.34040 / COCA.27547

英英释义

noun

• lack of generosity in trifling matters
  Synonym:littlenesssmallness
• the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
  Synonym:trivialityslightnesspuniness
• narrowness of mind or ideas or views

双语例句

• Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
  让我们抵制住退回到以前的党派偏见、小气和不成熟的诱惑，它们长期以来毒害着政治。
• Even from you I hadn't expected such pettiness.
  即使是你，我也没有料到如此卑鄙。
• The pettiness of their criticisms enraged him.
  他们鸡毛蒜皮地挑剔，他十分气愤。
• Now I am well aware the pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart.
  现在非常明白，卑鄙与伟大，怨恨与仁慈，憎恶与热爱，都能在同一个人身上发现。
• Electronic products, characterized by "lightness, thinness, shortness and pettiness", make great demands upon the micro-miniature and the assemble intensity of the components and parts inside.
  电子产品的轻、薄、短、小化对元器件的微型化和组装密度提出了更高的要求。
• Never had she met such spite and pettiness.
  她从未遭遇过如此恶毒和狭隘的事情。
• The Consideration of New Scholar Painting's Pettiness
  由新文人画的小巧引发的思考
• Her story recalls the vision and manoeuvrings, strategy and gambles, diplomacy and dangers, courage and pettiness of those dramatic days. And it is a tale of immense personalities.
  在这部作品中，她回顾了那个戏剧性时代中的眼界与手腕、策略与赌博、外交与危险、勇气与小气。这是一个讲述巨大人格魅力的故事。
• Well done America your pettiness has cost you big time.
  美国，你总在鸡毛蒜皮上浪费大量时间，干的好啊！
• Against hereditary discrimination there is only the slow process of enlightening people to the historical evil and vile everyday pettiness of discriminating on the basis of race.
  针对遗传型的歧视，只能通过启发人们认识历史上种族歧视的邪恶与现在可憎的种族歧视的日常事情，这是一个缓慢的过程。