英语释义

• something of small importance

片语

kvass淡啤酒；克瓦斯

nobody无名小卒，小人物

英汉例句

• His account goes on to explain surprisingly recognisable dose instructions, but less conventional means to dissolve the powder recommending it be dissolved in small beer and such like 「.

  接下来的记录中他对药物剂量作了说明，但这种粉末不能容于通常的溶剂，因此他推荐用啤酒或类似的溶剂溶解它们。

• She thinks small beer of painters, …-Well, we don」t think small beer of ourselves.

  她瞧不起画家……——不过，我们倒不小看自己。

• The charges against Lee Kun-hee, the 66-year-old chairman of Samsung, seem small beer compared with the accusations.

  和其他指控相比，针对三星主席66岁的李健熙的就算不了什么了。

• I「ve got 60 shares in the company, but that」s small beer compared with my father「s thousands.

  我在该公司有60股，但与我父亲的数千股相比就微不足道了。

• Industry analysts reckon that, at maximum capacity, tidal power could generate 13 gigawatts nationwide, small beer compared with the 35 gigawatts of wind generation that already exists.

  产业分析师估计，潮汐能源最多能产13万千瓦的电量，相比已有风力发电的35万千瓦逊色不少。

• A small beer would be better, not black beer.

  一小杯啤酒就好了，不要黑啤酒。

• Such roles are small beer compared with the fame she once enjoyed.

  和她曾经享有的名气相比，这样的角色真的算不了什么。

• Ever since he won in the competition, John has thought on small beer of himself.

  自竞赛中获胜以来，约翰便自命不凡起来了。

• A tiny by-election for the state assembly PAS already dominates is ordinarily small beer (or would be, if PAS allowed such a beverage, which it does not).

  州议会中，PAS已然处于支配地位，赢下区区一个递补选举，可谓小菜一碟（更确切地说，如果PAS承认有这么一「菜」，将是小菜一碟——但是他们不承认）。

• We had the porridge cold again at noon, and hot porridge at night, porridge and small beer was my uncle」s diet.

  中午吃的又是冷粥，晚上才有热粥吃，我伯伯的食谱就是粥和一点啤酒。

• The actual demands set out in the document are small beer indeed.

  文件中陈述的实际要求确实是无关紧要的。

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