piffling

adj.

1. 渺小的；微不足道的
   small and unimportant
   1. piffling amounts
      微不足道的数量

1. ADJ-GRADED 琐碎的；微不足道的
   If you describe something as piffling, you are critical of it because it is very small or unimportant.
   1. ...some piffling dispute regarding visiting rights.
      有关探视权的一些无关紧要的争论

1. Einstein was said always to wear the same clothes so as to avoid having to trouble his brain with such piffling matters as deciding between suits.
   据说，爱因斯坦总是穿着同样的衣服，这样就用不着为穿什么衣服这种琐事而伤脑筋。
2. Yet what it says about Royal Mail, apart from the piffling detail that its managers can neither write nor proofread, is deeply troubling.
   然而，它除了暴露出经理们既不会写信、也不会检查错字这一琐碎细节以外，它对皇家邮政的揭示也令人深感不安。
3. His demands for a tad more financial autonomy and oversight of the courts are piffling.
   他的要求（要求更多一点的金融自治权和对法庭的监督权）微不足道。
4. He considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost; piffling efforts; a trifling matter.
   他总是考虑生活中一些极琐碎事情的开支；微不足道的努力；琐碎的事情。
5. He got paid a piffling sum after weeks of work.
   他工作数周所得甚微。

adj

1. (informal) small and of little importance
   1. a fiddling sum of money
   2. a footling gesture
   3. our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
   4. a little (or small) matter
   5. a dispute over niggling details
   6. limited to petty enterprises
   7. piffling efforts
   8. giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction

   Synonym:    fiddlingfootlinglilliputianlittlenigglingpiddlingpettypicayunetrivial