footling

['fu:tliŋ]

adj. 不熟练的, 笨拙的, 无关紧要的, 微小的, 无用的, 无价值的
动词footle的现在分词形式

例句与用法：

Stop footling about, we have serious work to do.

别浪费时间了我们还有正经事要做。

A footling gesture.

无用的手势

词形变化：

副词: footlessly | 名词: footlessness |

a.

1. 愚笨的; 无能的

2. 无用的

footling

词形变化：

副词: footlessly | 名词: footlessness |

同义词：

反义词：

footed |

1. trivial and irritating
   微不足道且惹人生气的，无聊透顶的
   year after year you come with the same footling complaint.
   你年年都来发那种无聊透顶的牢骚。
   

footling

动词 footle:

be about

同义词：loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around

act foolishly, as by talking nonsense

同义词：footle

形容词 footling:

(informal) small and of little importance

同义词：fiddling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial

footling

■Central to the 10:10 campaign is an acknowledgement that the kind of action we are typically urged to take to combat climate change is all too often either footling or forbiddingly hair-shirted.

10：10运动的中心思想是承认，一般能促使我们采取的应对气候变化行动，往往不是微不足道，就是令人生畏的自我约束。

■single footling

不完全臀

■from head to footl

从头到脚; 全身; 完全

■All that inapprehensible questions I considered at that time were so footling and grotesque I feel nowadays.

伤心的时候什么也不说，只是将我轻轻拥住。

■Where have you been footling around?

你游荡到哪儿去了?

■2.Stop footling about, we have serious work to do.

别浪费时间了我们还有正经事要做。

■Stop footling about,we have serious work to do.

别浪费时间了，我们还有正经事要做。

■a footling gesture;

动作细微的手势；

■Congress's response to recent bribery scandals has been to impose footling restrictions on lobbyists.

国会对于近期行贿丑闻的回应是给说客强加了琐细的限制条款。

■Already, complaints about Chinese goods being dumped at below production cost take up an inordinate amount of time (recent footling disputes have involved light bulbs and tinned satsumas).

很自然的是，法国可能会领导这场“非互惠”运动，也就是说，除非中国能够满足欧盟的需要，否则欧盟就会对中国关闭其市场。

■A footling gesture.

无用的手势

■talk the most footling rot

讲无聊透顶的废话

■footling presentation

足先露 脚踏莲花生 足位产

■Footling breech delivery

足先露臀位分娩

■Here's a mouth-frother, here's a bigot, here's a stiff-necked buffoon who, in one ranting article, shows all that is wrong, footling and absurd about modern China.

这个满嘴废话的家伙,这个偏执狂。这个傲慢的小丑，在一篇咆哮的文章里,表现了关于现代中国的一切缪误,愚蠢和荒谬。

■Now here's another lunatic. Here's a mouth-frother, here's a bigot, here's a stiff-necked buffoon who, in one ranting article, shows all that is wrong, footling and absurd about modern China.

这儿又来了一个疯子。这个满嘴废话的家伙,这个偏执狂。这个傲慢的小丑，在一篇咆哮的文章里,表现了关于现代中国的一切缪误,愚蠢和荒谬。

■Unless the economy starts to recover powerfully enough to cut America's high unemployment levels, this modest set of policies will seem footling.

除非经济强劲反弹的力度大到能将美国的高失业率降下来，不然这种动作不大的政策将作用有限。