英语释义

• the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous

• lack of generosity in trifling matters

• narrowness of mind or ideas or views

片语

Pettiness Immaturity蒜皮

postage and pettiness邮费及杂费

Stupid Pettiness小事化大烦死人

baseness卑鄙；下贱

i dont like pettiness我讨厌

Such Pettiness And Cowardice如此琐碎而怯懦

Extreme pettiness of character肚鸡肠

meanness卑鄙；吝啬；劣等

rising above pettiness or meanness宽宏大量的

Back Pettiness蒜皮

英汉例句

• I began by asking Congress to put aside partisanship and pettiness and pride and suggesting that we work together on welfare reform, not to punish the poor but to empower them.

  我一开始就恳请国会把党派、小心眼和骄傲搁在一边，建议我们在福利改革问题上携手合作，不要处罚穷人，而要帮助他们生活下去。

• You are a people of great, untapped potential, who are to transcend the pettiness that the dark represents.

  你们是伟大的，拥有巨大未开发潜力的人类，你们是超越黑暗势力所代表的小器量的。

• But it hasn't - there are still the thousands of thoughts and actions and all the pettiness which were rampant only a moment ago.

  但是它没有——片刻之前猖獗着的成千上万的想法和行为，以及所有的琐碎卑微都在还。

• Such pettiness and greatness are rarely found in one person…

  如此的委琐和卑鄙与伟大极少能够集于一人之身…

• If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

  如果我能向死而生，承认并且直面死亡，我就能摆脱对死亡的焦虑和生活的琐碎。只有这样，我才能自由地做自己。

• The pettiness of their criticisms enraged him.

  他们鸡毛蒜皮地挑剔，他十分气愤。

• People want you to develop enough detachment to rise above individual pettiness so you see your peers not as strangers, but as 「brothers.」

  人们希望你建立足够的公正去提升个人的一些小事，因此你将你的同龄人视为「兄弟」而非陌生人。

• For now she knew the pettiness of the passions that art exaggerates.

  到现在，她知道了艺术所夸张出的情感的精微之处。

• We see him whole, and our vision is unobstructed by the pettiness in life.

  我们看到了完整的他，生活的琐屑阻碍不了我们的想望。

• The pettiness of its laws is never more evident than in its condemnation of vice, the expression of carnal tragedy born from the presence of the spirit in the flesh.

  而其中的规律却从未像对其邪恶的指责那样明显。世俗的悲剧都来源于赤裸裸的精神表达。

• 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。

• Do I know my pettiness without comparison?

  没有比较我会知道自己的琐碎吗？

• So, despite the forces of the status quo, despite the polarization and the frequent pettiness of our politics, we are confronting the great challenges of our times.

  尽管存在着要维持现状的势力，尽管我国政治存在两极化现象并经常表现出一种偏狭性，我们还是勇敢地面对这个时代的重大挑战。

• As a 16-year-old high school student living in New York, one of the craziest cities in the world, I felt like I needed a change from the pettiness and drama that seems to thrive there.

  我是一名16岁的纽约高中生，纽约是世界上最疯狂的城市之一，那里的生活琐碎而戏剧化，我感觉自已需要一点变化。

• In this era characterized by too much pettiness and flightiness, it is really a miracle that we should find such imposing forcefulness and artistic excellence as shown in his works.

  这个时代有太多的萎琐，也有太多的浮躁，如此大的气势和境界，实在少之甚少，是一个奇迹。

• 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。

• When I say 「generosity」, I mean a generosity of spirit: a lack of pettiness and jealousy, and a meeting (or close to it) of the minds.

  当说到慷慨，我指的是一种慷慨的精神：不吝啬不嫉妒，并且还要有一种这样的思想。

• 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。

相似词

illiberal偏执的；吝啬的；粗鄙的；狭隘的；缺乏文化素养的

insular孤立的；与世隔绝的；海岛的；岛民的

Lilliputian小人物，小东西；小人国的人；侏儒

little(Little)人名；(英)利特尔

narrow使变狭窄

narrow-minded狭隘的；心胸狭窄的；有偏见的

parochial教区的；狭小的；地方范围的

picayune价值低微的小硬币；西班牙小币；（非正式）无足轻重的人，微不足道的事物

provincial粗野的人；乡下人；外地人

sectarian属于宗派的人；宗派心强的人；宗派主义者

small小件物品；矮小的人

small-minded心胸狭窄的；固执己见的；气量小的

相反词

broad-minded心胸开阔的；气量大的

catholic罗马天主教徒

cosmopolitan四海为家者；世界主义者；世界各地都有的东西

liberal(Liberal)人名；(葡)利贝拉尔

open开始；展现

open-minded虚心的；思想开明的；无偏见的

receptive善于接受的；能容纳的

tolerant宽容的；容忍的；有耐药力的