the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
lack of generosity in trifling matters
双语例句
1. Never had she met such spite and pettiness.
她以前从来没有碰到过这样的恶意和狭隘。
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2. But he must get around such pettiness.
但他必须处理好这些琐碎杂事。
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3. Of art, and all its webs of pettiness.
和艺术的如网的繁琐。
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4. Do I know my pettiness without comparison?
没有比较我会知道自己的琐碎吗？
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5. The pettiness of their criticisms enraged him.
他们鸡毛蒜皮地挑剔，他十分气愤。
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6. We tend to equate jealousy with pettiness and selfishness.
我们倾向于把嫉妒与卑鄙、自私相等同。
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7. Whet to match to the hard separation in the pettiness.
在琐碎中磨合到难以分离。
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8. There's nothing I despise more in life than pettiness.
生命中我最鄙视的就是输不起了。
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9. Such pettiness and greatness are rarely found in one person…
如此的委琐和卑鄙与伟大极少能够集于一人之身…
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10. For now she knew the pettiness of the passions that art exaggerates.
到现在，她知道了艺术所夸张出的情感的精微之处。
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11. We see him whole, and our vision is unobstructed by the pettiness in life.
我们看到了完整的他，生活的琐屑阻碍不了我们的想望。
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12. On occasion, the two women went to lunch and she came home offended by some pettiness.
一次偶然的机会，两个女人一起去吃午餐，其中一个被一些小事弄得很不愉快。
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13. The White House, … was saturated with pettiness and hatred, a seige mentality. Us against them.
白宫充斥着小心眼和仇恨别人的排他心理，即一种“我们和他们相对立”的心理。
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14. Then you will become aware of your own reactions, of your own pettiness, of your own jealousies.
此时你会觉察到你自己的反应，你自己的琐碎，你自己的嫉妒。
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15. The negative pleasure one finds in work partakes of the poverty and banality of daily life, its pettiness.
否定快乐的人发现工作共有贫困与日常生活的乏味以及琐碎。
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16. You are a people of great, untapped potential, who are to transcend the pettiness that the dark represents.
你们是伟大的，拥有巨大未开发潜力的人类，你们是超越黑暗势力所代表的小器量的。
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17. A life like this, found out in the pettiness and remoteness of living, is right the essence of tea ceremony.
这种于生活最琐碎细微处发现的人生，才是茶道的本质所在。
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18. But it hasn't - there are still the thousands of thoughts and actions and all the pettiness which were rampant only a moment ago.
但是它没有——片刻之前猖獗着的成千上万的想法和行为，以及所有的琐碎卑微都在还。
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19. When I say "generosity", I mean a generosity of spirit: a lack of pettiness and jealousy, and a meeting (or close to it) of the minds.
当说到慷慨，我指的是一种慷慨的精神：不吝啬不嫉妒，并且还要有一种这样的思想。
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20. Now I am well aware the pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart.
现在非常明白，卑鄙与伟大，怨恨与仁慈，憎恶与热爱，都能在同一个人身上发现。
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21. People want you to develop enough detachment to rise above individual pettiness so you see your peers not as strangers, but as "brothers."
人们希望你建立足够的公正去提升个人的一些小事，因此你将你的同龄人视为“兄弟”而非陌生人。
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22. The pettiness of its laws is never more evident than in its condemnation of vice, the expression of carnal tragedy born from the presence of the spirit in the flesh.
而其中的规律却从未像对其邪恶的指责那样明显。世俗的悲剧都来源于赤裸裸的精神表达。
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23. As a 16-year-old high school student living in New York, one of the craziest cities in the world, I felt like I needed a change from the pettiness and drama that seems to thrive there.
24. In this era characterized by too much pettiness and flightiness, it is really a miracle that we should find such imposing forcefulness and artistic excellence as shown in his works.
这个时代有太多的萎琐，也有太多的浮躁，如此大的气势和境界，实在少之甚少，是一个奇迹。
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25. If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
26. If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
Whet to match to the hard separation in the pettiness. 在琐碎中磨合到难以分离。
Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship pettiness immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. 党派政治，琐碎狭隘，不成熟，长期以来这些东西荼毒了我们的政治。
