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

• 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。
• 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。
• It tends to emphasize the notion of human understanding, high-mindedness, detachment from life, absence of pettiness or triviality or vulgarity.
  这种观念注重人类的了解，崇高的意志，脱离俗尘的态度，以及琐碎、无聊、或下流的消灭。
• Never had she met such spite and pettiness.
  她从未遭遇过如此恶毒和狭隘的事情。
• A little mind consumed with trivia; petty little comments; disgusted with the pettiness of small minds.
  耗费在琐事上的狭小气量；心胸狭隘、气量小的评论；厌恶气量狭小的狭隘。
• The pettiness of their criticisms enraged him.
  他们鸡毛蒜皮地挑剔，他十分气愤。
• 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。
• A life like this, found out in the pettiness and remoteness of living, is right the essence of tea ceremony.
  这种于生活最琐碎细微处发现的人生，才是茶道的本质所在。
• The Consideration of New Scholar Painting's Pettiness
  由新文人画的小巧引发的思考
• 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。