triviality

英 [ˌtrɪviˈæləti]

美 [ˌtrɪviˈæləti]

n.  琐事; 小事; 微不足道; 琐碎; 无足轻重

复数：trivialities　

BNC.22970 / COCA.27515

牛津词典

noun

• 琐事；小事
  a matter that is not important
  1. I don't want to waste time on trivialities.
     我不想把时间浪费在一些琐碎小事上。
• 微不足道；琐碎；无足轻重
  the state of being unimportant or dealing with unimportant things
  1. His speech was one of great triviality.
     他的讲话根本无足轻重。

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。

英英释义

noun

• something of small importance
  Synonym:triviatriflesmall beer
• the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
  Synonym:pettinessslightnesspuniness
• a detail that is considered insignificant
  Synonym:technicalitytrifle

双语例句

• So, you too have it here, your various temples and all the puja and worship and all that triviality; all that is really nonsense.
  而且，你们这儿也有，你们各种各样的寺庙，所有的礼拜仪式，崇拜和所有那些琐事，所有这些都是地地道道的愚蠢行为。
• However, previous studies on advertising language mainly emphasize the triviality of words and phrases, the rhetoric, and communicative purposes of advertising language.
  过去对广告的研究大多是从广告语中的词汇和短语以及修辞和交际目的等角度出发进行的。
• She knew now the triviality of those passions which art paints so much larger than life.
  她现在知道了，情感的碎屑在艺术中涂抹得比在生活中多得多。
• One cannot criticize the book on the grounds of triviality.
  我们不能根据微末瑕疵来批评这本书。
• The second lesson is about triviality.
  第二大启示是关于琐事。
• Welty's works mainly concentrate on the ups and downs of the Southern families and the daily triviality, and she intends to expose the great negative influence the Southern culture deals modern Southerners, which enables her critique of Southern culture to have more realistic significance.
  通过对南方家族浮沉及日常琐事的描写，韦尔蒂的作品主要反映了南方传统文化对现代人的消极影响，这使她对南方文化的批判更具现实意义。
• He achieved extraordinary successes at an ordinary post. Your work is just going to be mundane triviality.
  他在平凡的工作岗位上作出了突出的成绩。
• Triteness or triviality of style.
  陈腐或者琐碎的风格。
• Then, I come to myself that affection is so delicate that it cannot be kept in triviality but in rainy days.
  然后，你忽然醒悟，感情原来是这么脆弱的。经得起风雨，却经不起平凡；
• It has resolved the problems such as complication of components design, multitude and triviality of parameter calculation and the influence from the climate, soil quality and planting habit during the experiments By CAA.
  农机CAA过程解决了农机部件设计过程复杂、参数计算繁琐、试验条件受气候和种植习惯影响等问题。