trivial
英['trɪvɪəl]
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英英释意
- 1. (informal terms) small and of little importance;
- "a fiddling sum of money"
- "a footling gesture"
- "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"
- "a little (or small) matter"
- "Mickey Mouse regulations"
- "a dispute over niggling details"
- "limited to petty enterprises"
- "piffling efforts"
- "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
- 2. obvious and dull;
- "trivial conversation"
- "commonplace prose"
- 3. of little substance or significance;
- "a few superficial editorial changes"
- "only trivial objections"
- 4. concerned with trivialities;
- "a trivial young woman"
- "a trivial mind"
- 5. not large enough to consider or notice