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小词详解 | trivial
trivial 英 [ˈtrɪviəl] 美 [ˈtrɪviəl]
“I’m certain that by 2060 we’d have built a zero-carbon economy and the cost of doing so would be trivial,” he says.
“我敢肯定,到 2060 年,我们已经建立了零碳经济,而这样做的成本将是微不足道的。”他说。
——《经济学人》No doubt Trump will try to spin some trivial foreign concessions as a great victory, but the actual result will just be to make everyone poorer.
毫无疑问,特朗普将试图把一些微不足道的外国让步夸大成伟大的胜利,但实际结果只会让所有人更加贫穷。
——《纽约时报》
[形容词] 琐碎不重要的;微不足道的
a trivial detail
细枝末节trivial matters
琐事a trivial offence
小过失trivial formalities
繁文缛节put the trivial above the important
本末倒置
Don't marry that trivial young man, please.
千万不要嫁给那个浅薄轻浮的年轻人。
trifling: (formal) small and not important insignificant: too small or unimportant to be worth consideration fiddling: (informal) small, unimportant and often annoying
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