pettiness

1 And so, in what amounts to a philosophical vaudeville performed by Gary and Janice, we get sketches depicting the savagery of elites, the pettiness of proles, the foolishness of dreamers.

2 Do I know my pettiness without comparison?

没有比较我会知道自己的琐碎吗？

3 But was there anyone you thought of this morning, in a flash of pettiness, like, “Oh, man, I showed you!”

4 A life like this, found out in the pettiness and remoteness of living, is right the essence of tea ceremony.

这种于生活最琐碎细微处发现的人生，才是茶道的本质所在。

5 Better to clear the air with occasional pettiness than let those relationships suffer.

6 As the inquiry builds, the suspects are stripped of their defenses, exposing pettiness, sharp teeth, false fronts and one pure heart.

7 Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship pettiness immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.

党派政治，琐碎狭隘，不成熟，长期以来这些东西荼毒了我们的政治。

8 Tom is a nice person, except for his pettiness.

汤姆这人什么都好,就是有点小里小气的.

9 It is a revealing look at the bureaucratic and political frustrations of a large-scale project, though much of what is revealed is pettiness and tedium.

10 He does not judge their time-wasting pettiness, so much as he celebrates the flaws that make us so tragically, wonderfully, human.

11 For the most part, Mr. Mitre manages this deftly; the small-scale pettiness easily translates to a broader context, though non-Argentines may fail to grasp other historical implications.

12 "I'd like to use this opportunity to showcase my ineptitude, pettiness, and the frequency with which I embarrass myself," she said.

13 But one of the best things about the breathtakingly brilliant TV series Transparent was how the trans character, Maura, was depicted with all her human flaws: her prejudices, privileges and pettiness.

14 Even something as straightforward as getting drinks is fraught with the pettiness of figuring out whether the bill is split properly.

15 The White House, … was saturated with pettiness and hatred, a seige mentality. Us against them.

白宫充斥着小心眼和仇恨别人的排他心理，即一种“我们和他们相对立”的心理。

16 "Only these parallel tales of heroism and pettiness, of sacrifice and crime, of life and death, can bring us together again," said Komorowski.

17 Mr. Chernow describes both the pettiness of these complaints and the gravity of other, more important ones, most crucially Washington’s behavior as a slave owner.

18 Now I am well aware the pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart.

现在非常明白，卑鄙与伟大，怨恨与仁慈，憎恶与热爱，都能在同一个人身上发现。

19 The pettiness of their criticisms enraged him.

他们鸡毛蒜皮地挑剔，他十分气愤。

20 There’s a core instability to the relationships in his work, heightened by his refusal to buff out the pettiness and casual cruelty.

1 琐碎

petty potty unimportant frivolous piddling peddling picayune fussed pettifogging footling pettily little light minute insignificant trifling petit chintzy nugatory picayunish trivialize

2 偏狭

narrow intolerant small-town parochial suburban insular hidebound pettily intolerance bigotry parochialism philistinism parochiality

3 心胸狭窄

narrow-minded small-minded

4 卑劣

low-lived mean small poor sorry insect nasty miserable petty reptile naughty vile beggar shabby lowering wretched unworthy scaly villainous sleazy reptilian scoundrel snide mean-spirited squalid mucky ornery scummy mangy wormy chintzy verminous currish snifty low miserably meanly squalidity villainy squalor meanness turpitude abjection poorness vilify

5 微小

minute fine slight slender miniscule stingy thousandth exiguous jerkwater minikin exiguity iota tininess exility

6 狭小

small poky incommodious pocket-handkerchief incapacious narrow contracted scanty

7 小气

tight-arsed tight petty tight-fisted cheese-paring churlishly churlishness

8 器量小

petty pettily