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

• The prison sentence seemed rather harsh, considering the triviality of the offence.
  考虑到罪行的一般性，宣判入狱似乎偏重。
• 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。
• 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。
• Objective To seek a scientific and practical method of quantifying clinical nursing activities with a knowledge of variety, complexity and triviality.
  目的针对临床护理工作内容具有多样性、复杂性、琐碎性等特点，探讨一种科学实用的方法对临床护理工作量进行量化。
• The triviality of a trigger should not be an excuse to underestimate the effect that trigger may have on a victim.
  一个触发中微不足道的特点不应该作为一个低估其可能对受害者产生影响的借口。
• 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 accused me of making a great fuss about trivialities
  他指责我为丁点琐事大惊小怪。
• As in every case, speculative identity is not the above-mentioned triviality of an implicit identity of subject and object.
  无论何处，思辨的统一，决不是刚才所说的那种肤浅的主体和客体的潜在的同一。