piffling
- adj.微不足道的;渺小的
pifflingadj
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- (informal) small and of little importance
- a fiddling sum of money
- a footling gesture
- our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
- a little (or small) 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
- Synonym: fiddling footling lilliputian little niggling piddling petty picayune trivial
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He got paid a piffling sum after weeks of work .
他工作数周所得甚微。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。