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piffle

美 [ˈpɪfl]英 [ˈpɪfl]
  • n.废话;蠢话;胡言乱语
  • vi.做无聊事;讲废话

过去式: piffled 现在分词: piffling 过去分词: piffled 第三人称单数: piffles

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noun

U胡言乱语;废话;蠢话
nonsense

rubbish

piffle

频次

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    N-UNCOUNT 废话;胡扯
    If you describe what someone says as piffle, you think that it is nonsense.

    He talks such a load of piffle.

    他满嘴胡说八道。

noun

1
trivial nonsense
Synonym: balderdash fiddle-faddle

verb

1
act in a trivial or ineffective way
2
speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Synonym: chatter palaver prate tittle-tattle twaddle clack maunder prattle blab gibber tattle blabber gabble

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  1. Pat really does talk a lot of piffle sometimes .

    帕特有时的确讲很多废话。

  2. He talks such a load of piffle .

    他满嘴胡说八道。

  3. He got paid a piffling sum after weeks of work .

    他工作数周所得甚微。

  4. People who know him are sure that it 's absolute piffle .

    了解他的人都知道,那纯粹是一派胡言。

  5. The entire report was piffle from beginning to end .

    整个报告从头至尾废话连篇。

  6. The old man often piffled incoherent speech after he had a stroke .

    这名老人在他中风之后,时常碎碎念一些语无伦次的话。

  7. a waffle pizza , which perhaps he should call the piffle .

    华夫饼披萨,他可能会把这种食品叫做priffle。

  8. Today 's piffling fines - £ 30 for riding on the pavement - should also be drastically raised .

    如今,骑车族上人行道要罚款30英镑。这种微不足道的罚款也应大幅提高。

  9. 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。

  10. 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。

  11. 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。

  12. 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。

  13. Dozens of readers have called you a baby and a fool and are cross with you ( and me ) for wasting their time on such piffle .

    很多读者说你是没长大的傻瓜,对你(和我)拿这种无聊的事来浪费他们的时间感到恼火。

  14. The school 's Rs600000 ( $ 9050 ) fees for the residential two-year course , though piffling compared with the $ 45697 tuition fee for just a year at Harvard , is still a stretch for many of its students .

    该学院的全日制两年住校课程学费为60万印度卢比(合9050美元),与哈佛大学一年就45697美元的学费相比简直微不足道,但对该学院很多学生而言仍然太贵。