Pettiness
['petinis]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) lack of generosity in trifling matters.
(noun.) the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous.
(noun.) narrowness of mind or ideas or views.
整理:马提--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.
亚伯整理
例句/造句/用法:
- But there was a branch house at the west end, and no pettiness or dinginess to give suggestions of shame. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Yet forward she went, through the whole sordid gamut of pettiness, the long amorphous, gritty street. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The jealous pettiness that disfigures the earlier tribal ideas of God give place to a new idea of a god of universal righteousness. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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