picayune
[.pikə'ju:n]
adj. 微小的, 心胸狭窄的
n. 西班牙铜币, 五美分铜币, 微不足道的事物
例句与用法:
Picasso overshadowed his contemporaries.
毕卡索使与他同时代的画家相形见绌。
Have you seen the Picasso exhibition?
你参观过毕加索的画展吗?
She paints in the fashion of Picasso.
她模仿毕加索的绘画风格。
词形变化:
形容词: picayunish |
n.
无价值之物
a.
1. 不值钱的
2. 眼光狭小的, 气量小的
picayune[,pikə'ju:n]n.1.■[美国英语]2.■(原在美国路易斯安那州流通的)西班牙小币;小额硬币3.■不值钱的东西4.■小钱币(尤指五分辅币)5.■[口语]小人物;不重要的人adj.1.■不值钱的;微不足道的;可鄙的[亦作 picayunish]近义词petty
picayunepicayune[ˌpikəˈju:n]n.1.■(原在美国路易斯安那州及南部各州流通的)西班牙小钱币; 小钱币(尤指五分辅币)2.■[美口]不值钱的东西, 小人物
[ˌpɪkəˈjuːn]
(N. Amer.)(北美)
adjective
- (informal)petty; worthless
(非正式)不值钱的,没有价值的;无足轻重的,微不足道的,无意义的;琐碎的
the picayune squab-bling of party politicians.
党派政客毫无意义的争论。
- a small coin of little value, especially a 5-cent piece
一种价值低微的小硬币(尤指一种5分硬币)
■(informal)an insignificant person or thing
(非正式)无足轻重的人;微不足道的事物
- early 19th cent.: from French picaillon, denoting a Piedmontese copper coin, also used to mean 'cash', from Provençal picaioun, of unknown ultimate origin
picayune
形容词 picayune:
(informal) small and of little importance
同义词:fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, trivial
picayune
■"The flower of loafers . . . was found stretched on the banquette on Tuesday night" (New Orleans Daily Picayune).
“周二晚上人行道上到处留着闲逛的人们扔下的花”(新奥尔良每日琐记)。
■"Mom, aren't you being just a little picayune, grounding me a whole week for damaging only the front end of the car?"
“妈妈,你这么做是不是有些太卑鄙了?我只是弄坏了汽车的前保险杠,你却让我一个星期不能开车。”
■not worth a picayune.
不值一文
■Althouth they are well-educated,they used to have picayune or none access to sex education,normally in their high schools.
他们虽然受过良好的教育,但是在中学里一般只受过很少或根本没有接受过性教育。
■Did he want to begin in a picayune, obscure way?
他愿意马马虎虎的着手吗?
■His action was unwarranted, picayune , and vindictive.
他的行为是非法的,卑鄙的,恶意的。
■1327. The trouble with your studying is that you spend too much time on picayune details and not enough on the really important matters.
你学习上的问题是,花在过度索粹细节的时间太多,而真正重要的事情上却时间太少。
■The flower of loafers . . . was found stretched on the banquette on Tuesday night(New Orleans Daily Picayune)See Regional Note at beignet
周二晚上人行道上到处留着闲逛的人们扔下的花(新奥尔良每日琐记)参见
■Having sold the most picayune details of her life for the previous six years to tabloid newspapers and celebrity magazines, she resolved to do the same for her death.
在治病期间,杰德将采访权和拍摄权卖给了一家媒体,并表示这样做是为了她的孩子们。
■Our manager's picayune neatness keeps the office staff on pins and needles we have to keep the offices neat as pins or he needles us.
我们的经理好整洁已经到了有些过分的地步。他让我们员工连针和线都要摆放整齐,否则他就会嘲弄我们。
■Update: West has been ruled out of Sunday's game against Detroit because of a sprained right ankle, the New Orleans Times Picayune reports.
更新:韦斯特因为扭伤了右脚踝已被排除周日主场与底特律活塞的比赛,新奥尔良时代皮卡尤恩报告。
■There are fortunes to be made that will make those of Astor and Rockefeller seem picayune.
有大量财富等待人们去创造,这将令阿斯特(Astor)和洛克菲勒(Rockefeller)那些人不值一哂。”
■Always give your best,never get discouraged,never be petty(Richard M.Nixon.What is picayune is of negligible value or importance
永远奉献出你最好的,绝不灰心,绝不吝啬(理查德·N·尼克森)。picayune的东西是微不足道的或不值一提的
■Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty(Richard M.Nixon.What is picayune is of negligible value or importance:
永远奉献出你最好的,绝不灰心,绝不吝啬(理查德 N 尼克森)。picayune的东西是微不足道的或不值一提的:
■No fellow spoils his life,but a picayune amount of them cherish time.
没有人不爱惜他的生命,但很少人珍视他的时间。
■9.Giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction.
给一位警官提供一顿免费的饭食或许违反了法律,但这看上去是不值一提的违法。
■picayune demands that all but confounded the peace talks
这些琐碎的要求只会使和平谈判受挫
■Picayune demands that all but confounded the peacetalks.
这些琐碎的要求只会使和平谈判受挫。