picayune

英

美

网络  皮卡尤恩; 花絮; 微不足道; 西班牙小币

COCA.35138

英英释义

adj

• (informal) small and of little importance
  1. a fiddling sum of money
  2. a footling gesture
  3. our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
  4. a little (or small) matter
  5. a dispute over niggling details
  6. limited to petty enterprises
  7. piffling efforts
  8. giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
  Synonym:fiddlingfootlinglilliputianlittlenigglingpiddlingpifflingpettytrivial

双语例句

• His action was unwarranted, picayune, and vindictive.
  他的行为是非法的，卑鄙的，恶意的。
• The trouble with your studying is that you spend too much time on picayune details and not enough on the really important matters.
  你学习上的问题是，花在过度索粹细节的时间太多，而真正重要的事情上却时间太少。
• The misery suffered in this war makes your own problems seem pretty picayune.
  战争中的苦难使你个人的烦恼显得微不足道。
• Picayune demands that all but confounded the peace talks.
  这些琐碎的要求只会使和平谈判受挫。