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

• Consequently, in Wang An'yi's novels, the triviality of the daily life is always her chief concern, whether it is the narration of history or the description of Shanghai and the countryside.
  因而，在王安忆的小说中，无论是对历史的叙述还是对上海以及乡村的描摹，凡俗人生的琐细的日常生活一直是她津津乐道的内容。
• The reason all hell always breaks out over biscuits is not in spite of their triviality, but because of it.
  人们之总是在饼干的问题上怨声连连，不在于它事小，而是它本身。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. Your work is just going to be mundane triviality.
  处理（剩下的）琐碎事项当我们胡扯琐碎的事情时，我们自己就变得琐碎，因为我们的注意力甘于琐碎。
• 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。
• 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。
• Triteness or triviality of style.
  陈腐或者琐碎的风格。
• 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。