查询词典 piffling

But even more damaging to the U.S. ability to liberalize trade is the fact that, given the widespread fear of freer trade in the population, it is almost insane to present Congress with a string of piffling FTAs and ask representatives to go to bat for trade liberalization again and again.

但是，对于美国使贸易自由化的能力的更大损害是，假如公众中弥漫着对于更自由的贸易的恐惧，那么，向国会提交一长串琐碎的FTAs，要求众议员们一遍又一遍地支持贸易自由化，就几乎是愚蠢的。

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。

In the evening here, It showed eternal pictures of a lamp, a low table, some piffling themes and children, neighbors, crops, etc.

在这里的晚上，一盏灯，一张矮桌，一些琐碎的话题，儿女、庄稼、邻里……是一幅幅永恒的画面。

Every month sees thousands of protests across China by poor farmers outraged at the expropriation of their land for piffling or no compensation.

每月都有数千农民愤怒抗议征收土地不给补偿。

You are a nation of peeny-weeny, piffling, piccolini,piddly-diddly pouft!

你们是小心眼小鼻子小眼睛小家子气的小气鬼！

This can be accomplished by lifting the hindquarter with the tail, piffling the foreleg, and applying a pumping motion with a foot in the flank.

抓起牛尾巴以抬高它的后部，拉起前腿，用脚踩住牛的侧腹做打气的动作。给受伤者的臂上扎止血带。

The tit-for-tat offences were quite piffling, said Mr Kamal—a spot of thieving or kidnapping of fighting-age males.

卡迈勒说，两个部落间针锋相对的仇恨其实相当琐碎，只是到了好斗年龄的男人的少量盗窃和拐骗行为。

The announcement itself—an alleged boost to parental power over local schools—may have been piffling, and certainly not enough to satisfy those still waiting for the visionary ideas promised by Mr Brown when he entered Number 10 two years ago.

这个声明本身――被指责成对施加在当地学校的家长制强权起到了推波助澜的作用――未免太小儿科，也远远不能满足那些憧憬着2年前布朗踏入唐宁街10号时许诺的改革构想的民众期待的心。

In 2004 Sim Lake, the judge who is set to preside over the Enron trial, handed down a sentence of 24 years to a middle-ranking executive at Dynegy for his role in an accounting fraud that inflated the energy firm's cashflow by $300m—a piffling sum compared with the scale of the financial chicanery at Enron.

雷克法官宣布美国能源公司Dynegy的一位中层主管被判入狱24年，因为在公司帐目上，他夸大了3亿美元的公司流转现金。不过，这个数目和安然财政诈骗的数额比起来微不足道。希姆？雷克还将在安然案件中担任主法官。

They weren't aggressive, but I yelled and threw a rock in their direction to get them off the trail and away from me, just in case.

他们没有侵略性，但我大喊，并在他们的方向扔石头让他们过的线索，远离我，以防万一。

In slot 2 in your bag put wrapping paper, quantity does not matter in this case.

在你的书包里槽2把包装纸、数量无关紧要。