piddling
adj[esp attrib 尤作定语]
(infml derog 口, 贬)
(a) unimportant; trivial 不重要的; 琐碎的
I don't want to hear all the piddling little details! 我不想听那些琐碎的事!
(b) small 小的
It's annoying to have to get authorization for spending such piddling amounts of money. 花这麽一点钱也要去请示, 真烦人.
🗣️ 情景例句
Money is everything to him.
钱对他而言是最重要的东西。
You may leave it to me.
交给我来办。
A foreigner living in a Swedish village wrote to the Ombudsman complaining that he had been ill-treated by the police, simply because he was a foreigner.