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

• In each case the scenes set in ye olde days are much more dramatic than those set in the present, which suggests that the film-makers are embarrassed by the triviality of modern life.
  那些古老时光的场景总比现代场景处理的更引人注目，这也表明了制片人对于现代生活的平凡无奇感到尴尬。
• A novel theory called bi-default theory is proposed for handling inconsistent knowledge simultaneously in the context of default logic without leading to triviality of the extension.
  提出了一个新的缺省推理理论，称为双缺省理论，使得缺省逻辑在四值语义下能够同时处理不协调的知识而不导致扩张的平凡性。
• Only then will he be able to see the triviality of this little space.
  只有这时，他才能看到这个狭小空间的琐碎。
• 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。
• Eg. he was going to expose their triviality once and for all.
  他将彻底暴露他们的浅薄无能。
• 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。
• 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；
• That` s because it involves so much triviality and responsibility, even troubles.
  因为，它（婚姻）包含了很多琐事、责任甚至麻烦。
• These methods had been developed recently to reduce the triviality in analyzing the spatial mechanisms.
  这些方法在解决空间机构运动分析的繁琐性方面有所创新。
• 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。