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

• Concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities.
  关心的是工作或重要的事情而非玩乐或琐事。
• His father worked all day at the factory and was not expected to be involved in such trivialities.
  他父亲成天在工场里，是理不到这些闲事的；
• His pent-up emotion had to find a vent so that domestic trivialities often enraged him.
  情郁于中，自然要发之于外；家庭琐屑便往往触他之怒。
• I'm not concerned about such trivialities.
  我跟这些琐事没关系。
• 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。
• The rectification will deal not with trivialities but with important issues, with the question of political line.
  又不是整那些鸡毛蒜皮，而是整大事，整路线问题。
• 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。
• Tree modeling is a hotspot in the research of virtual reality. Gene structure and environment of tree growth is rather complex, and this will lead to trivialities and complexity in the simulation of tree.
  树木建模是虚拟现实研究的热点，但是树木的基因结构和生长环境复杂，导致了树木建模过程繁琐复杂。
• By contrast, politicians of Hong Kong are so much involved in trivialities that they often fail to see the wood for the trees.
  不像香港政界人士眼光短浅，纠缠于具体烦事之中，脱身不出来，因而往往是只看树木，不见森林。
• 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。