英语释义

1. something of little value, substance, or importance

2. a dessert typically consisting of plain or sponge cake often soaked with wine or spirits (such as brandy or rum) and topped with layers of preserves, custard, and cream

3. to some small degree slightly
a trifle annoyed

4. to treat someone or something as unimportant

5. to talk in a jesting or mocking manner or with intent to delude or mislead

6. to handle something idly

7. to spend or waste in trifling or on trifles

8. something that does not have much value or importance

9. a dessert made of layers of cake, jam or jelly, and custard and topped with whipped cream

10. something of little value or importance

11. to treat (someone or something) as unimportant
Robin … was the more muscular of the twins and not to be trifled with.
— Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising

片语

not bother about trifles美国人以不拘小节

fuss about trifles指在细枝末节上与人相争理论

Tremendous Trifles庞然琐事

trifle with玩弄；视同儿戏；心不在焉地做

stick at trifles拘泥于琐事

Endless Disputes Over Trifles互相扯皮

mere trifle小意思

be mean in trifles打小算盘

be annoyed at trifles为小事而感到不高兴

complain about trifles因琐事而怨天尤人

Summer Trifles夏日纪事

英汉例句

• from these trifles you can gather what kind of person he is.

  从这些小事上，你可以想见他的为人。

• but such trifles haven’t slowed down paul.

  但这点小事显然难不倒「保罗」。

• they should not be lazy and distracted by insignificant trifles because this is a very important stage in their business life.

  蝎子们不能偷懒或因一些小事分心，因为在他们的事业生涯中，这是一个非常重要的阶段。

• er…how to say? on the whole, i should say yes. but there are still some trifles i hate to see.

  额…怎么说呢？总体来说，我应该说满意的。但是我还是讨厌看到一些琐事。

• sometimes my supervisor blames me for trifles and i cannot lose my temper easily in front of a girlfriend or close friends," said lang lihan, a 25-year-old male white collar worker.

  有时主管会因为一点点小事就责备我，在女友以及好友面前，我也不能轻易发火。

• but there are still some trifles i hate to see.

  但是我还是讨厌看到一些琐事。

• otherwise, you can lose entire days on trifles — worst of all, on trifles of other people.

  否则，你可能在这些琐事上浪费你一天的时间——最糟的是，还是为了别人的琐事。

• the children loved him because he knew how to make charming little trifles of straw and cocoanuts.

  孩子们爱他，也还因为他知道用麦秸和椰子壳做成各种有趣的小玩意儿。

• many details and trifles in life appear to be neglected by us in a bustling urban life.

  在匆匆忙忙的都市，生活中的很多细节好像都被忽略了。

• they desire to show how beautiful and successful their villages look, thus wasting money on the unnecessary trifles .

  他们期望展示他们村庄的美丽和成功，因此把钱花在一些不必要的琐事上。

• the workers were nonprofessionals, judging by absence in their helmet equipment, 「protectors」 on ropes and other trifles providing safety both of them and civilian.

  从工作人员没戴安全帽这一点看来，他们都不太专业，为他们及居民提供保护的，也就仅仅是绳索以及一些微不足道的措施而已。

相似词

bagatelle(Bagatelle)人名；(法)巴加泰勒

frippery无用的东西；便宜而俗艳的服装

nothing无；零；无关紧要的事

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

small beer淡啤酒；琐事；小人物

small change零钱；无聊话

triviality浅薄，轻浮；琐事；平凡