piffling

英 [ˈpɪflɪŋ]

美 [ˈpɪflɪŋ]

adj.  渺小的; 微不足道的

现在分词：piffling　

牛津词典

adj.

• 渺小的；微不足道的
  small and unimportant
  1. piffling amounts
     微不足道的数量

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 琐碎的；微不足道的
  If you describe something aspiffling, you are critical of it because it is very small or unimportant.
  1. ...some piffling dispute regarding visiting rights.
     有关探视权的一些无关紧要的争论

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:fiddlingfootlinglilliputianlittlenigglingpiddlingpettypicayunetrivial

双语例句

• Einstein was said always to wear the same clothes so as to avoid having to trouble his brain with such piffling matters as deciding between suits.
  据说，爱因斯坦总是穿着同样的衣服，这样就用不着为穿什么衣服这种琐事而伤脑筋。
• His demands for a tad more financial autonomy and oversight of the courts are piffling.
  他的要求（要求更多一点的金融自治权和对法庭的监督权）微不足道。
• He got paid a piffling sum after weeks of work.
  他工作数周所得甚微。
• He considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost; piffling efforts; a trifling matter.
  他总是考虑生活中一些极琐碎事情的开支；微不足道的努力；琐碎的事情。
• Yet what it says about Royal Mail, apart from the piffling detail that its managers can neither write nor proofread, is deeply troubling.
  然而，它除了暴露出经理们既不会写信、也不会检查错字这一琐碎细节以外，它对皇家邮政的揭示也令人深感不安。