Petty
['petɪ] or ['pɛti]
解释:
(adj.) contemptibly narrow in outlook; 'petty little comments'; 'disgusted with their small-minded pettiness' .
埃维塔校对--From WordNet
解释:
(superl.) Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince.
校对:谢尔曼
同义词及近义词:
a. [1]. Little, small, trifling, trivial, frivolous, inconsiderable, unimportant, insignificant, slight, of small moment, of small account.[2]. Inferior, of a low grade.
编辑:奥尔加
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Small, mean, paltry, ignoble, trifling, narrow, trivial, contemptible
ANT:Large, large-hearted, noble, generous, chivalrous, magnificent, liberal, broad
编辑:菲利普
解释:
adj. small: of less importance: lower in rank power &c.: inconsiderable insignificant: contemptible.—adv. Pett′ily.—n. Pett′iness.—Petty cash small sums of money received or paid; Petty larceny (see Larceny); Petty officer a naval officer with rank corresponding to a non-commissioned officer in the army.
手打:齐妮亚
例句:
- To the party worker the petty and the honest issue are equally disturbing. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Such conditions are often minutely represented in our petty lifetimes. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- It would be very petty of us who are well and can bear things, to think much of small offences from those who carry a weight of trial. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- At that point he had transcended the mind of the petty reformer completely. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- She wants petty, immediate POWER, she wants the illusion that she is a great woman, that is all. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- But Akbar, like all men, great or petty, lived within the limitations of his period and its circles of ideas. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But between ourselves, Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a petty way as ever came before me. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
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