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pet·ty 英ˈpetiː美ˈpɛtiAHDpĕtʹē
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adj.小的⁴⁴;琐碎的³⁵;次要的⁹;狭隘的¹²
adj.形容词
不重要的unimportant 卑鄙的；小气的mean;narrow-minded
Noun:
larceny of property having a value less than some amount the amount varies by locale
Adjective:
inferior in rank or status;the junior faculty a lowly corporal petty officialdom a subordinate functionary informal small and of little importance;a fiddling sum of money a footling gesture our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war a little or small matter a dispute over niggling details limited to petty enterprises piffling efforts giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction contemptibly narrow in outlook;petty little comments disgusted with their small-minded pettiness petty，trivial这两个形容词均含“琐细的，不重要的”之意。 petty指在同类中是最小最微不足道的人或事物。 trivial指无特别价值或重要意义的普通小事。 来自古法语petit拼写变体。
用作形容词 adj.
～+名词petty commodities小商品petty details不重要的细节petty remark小气的话
GRE红宝书pet宠物, ty小－小宠物－不重要的; ky结尾一般有小的意思
pet宠物 + y 特点,宠物的特点就是小非常记忆pet宠物〖熟词〗+ty太阳〖拼音〗⇒宠物和太阳相比真是太微不足道了联想记忆pet宠物＋ty→宠物→小动物→小的近义词 low低的base底部small小的puny微小的mean意思是little小的minor轻微的subaltern副官lowly地位低的inferior较低的wretched可怜的picayune微小的spiteful恶意的grudging吝惜的niggling琐碎的piddling无用的piffling琐碎的trivial不重要的miserable痛苦的resentful不满的important重要的secondary次要的despicable可鄙的paltry微不足道的footling不熟练的worthless无价值的malicious怀恶意的Lilliputian极小的contemptible可鄙的trifling微不足道的junior-grade低阶的fiddling无足轻重的unimportant不重要的lower-ranking低阶的vindictive有报仇心的narrow-minded气量小的petit larceny轻盗窃罪small-minded眼光狭小的insignificant无关紧要的inconsequential不合逻辑的petty larceny律轻盗窃罪…反义词 great很好的important重要的
用作形容词adj.
用作定语
～+ n.It was a petty problem and they soon solved it.这仅是一个小问题，他们很快就解决了。
用作表语
It is/was+～+of sb+to- vIt was petty of her not to accept the apology.她气量太小，连道歉也不接受。
形容词99%,名词1%
用作形容词The party split intopettyfactions.该党分裂成若干小派系。
The paymasters of thesepettycrooks are the big crime syndicates.操纵这帮小流氓的就是那个大犯罪集团。
In his short life he had run the entire gamut of crime, frompettytheft to murder.他在短短的一生中,从小偷小摸到杀人,什么罪都犯过。
Don't bug me withpettydetails.不要讲那些琐碎的细节来烦我。
People do not discourage this kind ofpettywork.人们对这种次要的工作不加以阻止。
She grew tired of hispettyjealousies.她越来越讨厌他那种心胸狭窄的忌妒行为。
She is verypettyat times.她有时很小心眼。adj.trivial, insignificant
同义词 frivolous,lesser,minor,narrow-mindedbase,inessential,inferior,junior,light,little,lower,peanut,scratch,secondary,shallow,shoestring,slight,small,subordinate,triflingcasual,cheap,contemptible,inconsequent,inconsiderable,irrelevant,measly,negligible,nickel-and-dime,niggling,paltry,penny-ante,pettifogging,picayune,piddling,shabby,small-minded,two-bit,unimportant
反义词 greater,major,big,enormous,first-class,first-rate,great,huge,immense,important,large,significant,superiorconsequential,necessary,prominent,useful
emptyadjective fruitless, ineffective
aimless,banal,barren,cheap,dead,deadpan,devoid,dishonest,dumb,expressionless,fatuous,flat,frivolous,futile,hollow,idle,ignorant,inane,ineffectual,inexpressive,insincere,insipid,jejune,meaningless,nugatory,otiose,paltry,purposeless,senseless,silly,trivial,unintelligent,unreal,unsatisfactory,unsubstantial,vacuous,vain,valueless,vapid,worthless
exiguousadjective scanty
bare,confined,diminutive,inadequate,limited,little,meager,narrow,negligible,paltry,petty,poor,restricted,skimpy,slender,slight,small,spare,sparse,tenuous,thin,tiny
fewadjective hardly any
exiguous,few and far between,imperceptible,inconsequential,inconsiderable,infrequent,insufficient,lean,less,meager,middling,minor,minority,minute,negligible,not many,not too many,occasional,paltry,petty,piddling,rare,scant,scanty,scarce,scarcely any,scattered,scattering,seldom,semioccasional,short,skimpy,slender,slight,slim,some,sparse,sporadic,stingy,straggling,thin,trifling,uncommon,unfrequent,widely spaced
fineadjective discriminating, exact
abstruse,acute,clear,critical,cryptic,delicate,distinct,enigmatic,esoteric,fastidious,fine-spun,hairline,hairsplitting,intelligent,keen,minute,nice,obscure,petty,precise,pure,quick,recondite,refined,sensitive,sharp,sterling,strict,subtle,tasteful,tenuous,trifling,unadulterated,unpolluted
frivolousadjective trivial, silly
barmy,childish,dizzy,empty-headed,facetious,featherbrained,flighty,flip,flippant,foolish,gay,giddy,harebrained,idiotic,idle,ill-considered,impractical,juvenile,light,light-minded,minor,niggling,nonserious,not serious,paltry,peripheral,petty,playful,pointless,puerile,scatterbrained,senseless,shallow,sportive,superficial,tongue-in-cheek,unimportant,unprofound,volatile,whimsical
humbleadjective poor, inferior
base,beggarly,common,commonplace,contemptible,humdrum,ignoble,inglorious,insignificant,little,low,low-born,low-ranking,lowly,meager,mean,measly,menial,miserable,modest,obscure,ordinary,paltry,petty,pitiful,plebeian,proletarian,puny,rough,scrubby,seemly,servile,severe,shabby,simple,small,sordid,trivial,unassuming,uncouth,underprivileged,undistinguished,unfit,unimportant,unpretentious,unrefined,vulgar,wretched I’m not that petty.
我不是那么小气。 yeeyan
It also puts land records and death certificates online, cutting down on one form of petty graft.
该邦也把地籍和死亡证明弄到网上，砍掉了某种形式的小额贪污。 ecocn
Japan’s dysfunctional politics were rooted in its one-party system: petty factionalism has survived both the Liberal Democratic Party’s resounding defeat in 2009 and the recent tsunami.
日本失调政治活动源于其一党制：小规模的党派活动能度过2009年自由民主党的轰动的胜利以及最近的海啸。 ecocn
The accountant said that we could use petty cash to buy paper but not to buy a new printer.
会计说我们可以用零用现金去买纸，但是不能用它买一个新的打印机。 kekenet
The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
时日在无穷的展望中延展着，于是我们干着琐碎的事情，几乎意识不到我们对生活的倦怠态度。 ebigear
“ If they can fabricate votes for something as petty as a national tourism day, then they can fabricate many other things, ” said Zhang Hongzheng.
“如果他们连国家旅游日这种琐碎的事情都要伪造票数的话，在很多其他事情上他们也会造假，”张宏正说。 iciba
But in return for supporting the government, he wants tougher sentences for petty criminals and the publication on the internet of the names of all those who receive state benefits.
但是作为支持政府的回报，他要求对普通罪犯，对那些以得到国家福利的人之名在因特网上的出版物施以更严厉的刑罚。 ecocn
Computer is not a petty human.
计算机不是一个可爱的人。 cnblogs
From the perspective of the consciousness itself, your human- level dreams and goals seem petty.
从意识本身的角度来看，你人类层面的梦想和目标看来都很好。 yeeyan
He has dropped some of the petty restrictions that irritate Cubans.
他抛弃了那些激怒古巴人民的小的限制。 ecocn
In his Palm Sunday sermon, the pope said his faith helped him avoid being intimidated by “the petty gossip of dominant opinion”.
在圣枝主日布道讲话中，教皇说他的信仰让他不会因“主导意见的琐碎议论”而感到威胁。 ecocn
Listen to sweet music, and your foolish fears and petty jealousies will pass away.
倾听悦耳的音乐，你那愚蠢的恐惧与狭隘的嫉妒都会过去。 hjenglish
Love of power is greatly increased by the experience of power, and this applies to petty power as well as to that of potentates.
对权力的迷恋随着对权力的体验而与日俱增，而且不论这权力是大到君王的，还是小到微不足道。 yeeyan
Many businesses are entangled in petty rules when they seek to set up or expand.
许多企业在设法成立或拓展事业时，都被琐碎的规章束缚着。 ecocn
Mr Baruch dismisses that as petty and spiteful.
巴鲁克驳斥其为小气和恶意的。 ecocn
Obama proclaimed“ an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics”.
奥巴马宣称，“结束长久以来扼杀我们政治的那些琐碎的、不满和虚假的承诺，以及相互指责和陈旧的教条”。 yeeyan
Our planet may burn, millions may die, and cities such as Moscow and New York may smoulder, but at least we will be free of petty regulation and bureaucracy. It seems a stiff price to pay.
我们的星球也许会燃烧，数百万人也许会死亡，莫斯科和纽约这样的城市也许会闷燃毁灭，但是，至少我们会摆脱琐碎的管理和官僚主义，而这似乎要付出极其沉重的代价。 yeeyan
They were also sent because of petty crime, like stealing food, or because they had missed school.
还有人是因为像盗窃食物这样的轻微罪行，或者是因为缺课而被送走的。 yeeyan
They also give bankers a way to size up borrowers: those who struggle to separate petty cash from capital might not be ready for the big time.
而这也是银行家估计借贷者情况的一个方式：那些努力将资金分成小额现款的借贷者也许并没准备大干一番。 ecocn
You will know what he cares about and you will know what he considers insignificant, petty, or distracting.
你就会知道他所关心的，和那些他看为不重要的、琐碎的和烦扰的事物。 yeeyan |