trivialities

英 [ˌtrɪvɪˈælɪtiz]

美 [ˌtrɪviˈælətiz]

n.  琐事; 小事; 微不足道; 琐碎; 无足轻重
triviality的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 琐事;小事
  If you refer to something as atriviality, you think that it is unimportant and not serious.
  1. He accused me of making a great fuss about trivialities...
     他指责我为丁点琐事大惊小怪。
  2. Interviews with politicians were juxtaposed with news items of quite astonishing triviality.
     对政治家的访谈与内容相当耸动的八卦新闻放在同一个版面。

双语例句

• Indeed, I have witnessed too much of this process, not only in the trivialities of everyday life, but also on the grand scale of global interactions.
  事实上，小到日常琐事大到国际交往，我都看到了很多这样的例子。
• Daily trivialities which seem so important to men.
  对人们似乎如此重要的日常琐事。
• Woodhouse was too old and too fond of worrying about trivialities to be a companion for his daughter.
  伍德豪斯先生年事已高，又爱为琐事发愁，自然无法给女儿作伴儿。
• He found it inconceivable that a grown man of substance would let such trivialities affect his judgment in an affair of business, and one of such importance.
  他觉得这件事情无法理解：一个有这么多财富的人居然可以让这么一件微不足道的事情影响他的判断力，而且是在这样一件生意上面的事情。
• When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. Your work is just going to be mundane triviality.
  处理（剩下的）琐碎事项当我们胡扯琐碎的事情时，我们自己就变得琐碎，因为我们的注意力甘于琐碎。
• I'm not concerned about such trivialities.
  我跟这些琐事没关系。
• By contrast, politicians of Hong Kong are so much involved in trivialities that they often fail to see the wood for the trees.
  不像香港政界人士眼光短浅，纠缠于具体烦事之中，脱身不出来，因而往往是只看树木，不见森林。
• Concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities.
  关心的是工作或重要的事情而非玩乐或琐事。
• You have a broad concern about the issues and problems in the world while you seem to have been caught up in your big and small struggles with the details and trivialities in your daily life.
  你对这个世界中存在的许多问题都有广泛的关注和忧虑，而同时你又得对自己每天生活中不得不去面对的许多细节琐事作大大小小的抗争，身陷其中，不能自拔。
• Once in the examination hall all such trivialities were forgotten.
  一进考场，所有这样的小事全都忘了。