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小词详解 | trifle
trifle 英 [ˈtraɪfl] 美 [ˈtraɪfl]
France’s top female league sold five-year rights to Canal+, a pay-TV firm, for €6m—a trifle but six times more than two years ago.
法甲女足联赛以600万欧元的价格向付费电视公司Canal+出售了五年的转播权,虽说比起来只是毛毛雨,但已是两年前价格的六倍。
——《经济学人》The law does not concern itself with trifles.
法律不理琐碎之事。
——《纽约时报》
[名词] 没什么价值或重要性的东西
为琐事浪费时间
to waste time on trifles让她付钱吧——她富得很。2000美元对她来说不过是区区小数。
Let her pay─she's loaded. $2 000 is a mere trifle to her.
他这个人怠慢不得。
He is not a person to be trifled with.
翻弄盘中烤焦的面包
trifle with the burnt cake on the plate玩弄某人的感情/爱情
trifle with sb's feelings/affections
There was that in her young voice that told that she was not a one to be lightly trifled with.
她那年轻的声音宣告说:她可不是能够随随便便地被人摆布的。
flirt: behave as though sexually attracted to someone, but playfully rather than with serious intentions minutiae: the small, precise, or trivial details of something trivia: details, considerations, or pieces of information of little importance or value