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

• However, metaphysical pursuits will never cease to exist, as they are expressions of man's needs for transcending the trivialities of life.
  但是，形上追求作为一种本体性冲动是不会停止的，因为它表达的是人的超越需要。
• They do not dwell on the trivialities or the details.
  他们不仔细考虑细节的琐碎部分。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He found it inconceivable that a grown man of substance would let such trivialities affect his judgment in an affair of business, and one of such importance.
  他觉得这件事情无法理解：一个有这么多财富的人居然可以让这么一件微不足道的事情影响他的判断力，而且是在这样一件生意上面的事情。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。