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

• 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。
• 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。
• She compromised by writing as seldom as possible, and adhering to the merest trivialities.
  她采取折衷的办法，尽可能少写信并且坚持写最微不足道的琐事。
• In order to emphasize the truth of life existing in trivialities, the play adopts episodic structure with digressions rather than works on conflict or climax, and cyclical and symmetrical patterns are also evident.
  为了突出生活的真谛就在于平淡琐事的主题，在结构上没有传统的冲突和高潮，而是采用带有许多离题片段的松散结构，并带对称和循环模式。
• Such trivialities, such praises of wealth, such conventional expression of morals as sifted through this passive creature's mind, fell upon Carrie and for the while confused her.
  那些浅薄无聊的东西，那种对财富的崇尚，那些传统的道德观念，从不动脑筋的经理太太那里像筛子一样漏了出来，使嘉莉一时头脑糊涂起来。
• A common danger clears the mind of trivialities.
  共同的危险使人们不再去计较细枝末节的事情。
• Mr Casaubon seemed even unconscious that trivialities existed.
  卡苏朋先生似乎根本不知道世上有浅薄的闲聊。
• 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。
• He accused me of making a great fuss about trivialities
  他指责我为丁点琐事大惊小怪。
• 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。