琐碎的细节

If he engages in controversy of any kind, his disciplined intellect preserves him from the blundering discourtesy of better, though less educated minds; who, like blunt weapons, tear and hack instead of cutting clean, who mistake the point in argument, waste their strength on trifles, misconceive their adversary, and leave the question more involved than they find it.

如果他与他人涉入任何问题之争时，他那训练有素的头脑总不致使他出现一些也许比他更聪明但却缺乏教养的人所常犯的那种失检无礼的缺点；这类人仿佛一把钝刀那样，只知乱砍一通，但却不中要害，他们往往把辩论的要点弄错，把气力虚抛在一些琐碎细节上面，或者对自己的对手并不理解，因而他问题弄得更加复杂。

Gesture; our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war; a little matter; 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.

一笔微不足道的钱；动作细微的手势；与战争时期的国家相比，我们的烦恼是微不足道的；小事；关于琐碎细节的争论；限于小企业；无足轻重的努力；给警察提供一顿免费餐也许违反了法律，但这看起来只是个小小的违反。

Mr. weston was a great favourite, and there was not a creature in the world to whom she spoke with such unreserve, as to his wife; not any one, to whom she related with such conviction of being listened to and understood, of being always interesting and always intelligible, the little affairs, arrangements, perplexities, and pleasures of her father and herself.

她对任何人讲话都不像跟他们讲话是这样推心置腹，不论是琐碎小事，安排细节，感到为难的问题，还是她父亲和她的乐趣，她都深信她的话会被仔细听取，深深理解，对方从来都会感兴趣，感到易于听懂。

Overparticular about trivial details; fastidious.

吹毛求疵的过分注意琐碎细节的；爱挑剔的

All which details, I have no doubt, JONES, who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial, twaddling, and ultra-sentimental.

琼斯①在他的俱乐部里看这本书看到这些细节，一定会骂它们琐碎、无聊，全是废话，而且异乎寻常的肉麻。

They do not dwell on the trivialities or the details.

他们不仔细考虑细节的琐碎部分。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失